Package: ifupdown Version: 0.8.35 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
booting is slowed down by failing ifupdown_pre.service. The problem is around since a few days only. [FAILED] Failed to start Helper to …chronize boot up for ifupdown. See 'systemctl status ifupdown-pre.service' for details. [DEPEND] Dependency failed for Raise network interfaces. ● ifupdown-pre.service - Helper to synchronize boot up for ifupdown Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ifupdown-pre.service; static; vendor pres Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2020-05-07 22:01:37 CEST; 3min 1 Process: 269 ExecStart=/bin/sh -c if [ "$CONFIGURE_INTERFACES" != "no" ] && [ Main PID: 269 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Feb 14 11:12:00 server systemd[1]: Starting Helper to synchronize boot up fo May 07 22:01:37 server systemd[1]: ifupdown-pre.service: Main process exited May 07 22:01:37 server systemd[1]: ifupdown-pre.service: Failed with result May 07 22:01:37 server systemd[1]: Failed to start Helper to synchronize boo My system is booted via iSCSI. So the only available network interface is needed before the init process starts. /etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0: »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.8 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.0.1 auto eth0:1 iface eth0:1 inet dhcp ««««««««««««««««««««««««««««««« Best regards Heinrich Schuchardt -- Package-specific info: --- /etc/network/interfaces: # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). source /etc/network/interfaces.d/* # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet manual # This is an autoconfigured IPv6 interface iface eth0 inet6 auto --- /etc/network/interfaces.d/*: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.123.28 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.123.254 auto eth0:1 iface eth0:1 inet dhcp --- up and down scripts installed: /etc/network/if-down.d: total 4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 919 Sep 16 2018 sendmail /etc/network/if-post-down.d: total 4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 919 Sep 16 2018 sendmail /etc/network/if-pre-up.d: total 0 /etc/network/if-up.d: total 4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1714 Sep 16 2018 sendmail -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: arm64 (aarch64) Kernel: Linux 5.5.11-arm64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages ifupdown depends on: ii adduser 3.118 ii iproute2 4.20.0-2 ii libc6 2.28-10 ii lsb-base 10.2019051400 Versions of packages ifupdown recommends: ii isc-dhcp-client [dhcp-client] 4.4.1-2 Versions of packages ifupdown suggests: pn ppp <none> pn rdnssd <none> -- no debconf information