Hey Joerg Thanks for submitting a bug report. I've prepared a patch to fix this issue (soon to be pushed on our github).
This issue will be automatically closed when the new release is uploaded and validated by the debian system Cheers, Julien On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 5:15 PM Joerg Dorchain <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: ifupdown2 > Version: 1.2.2-1 > Severity: serious > Justification: renders system unusable > > Hello, > > with this package and this version, my system comes up without any > networking configured, giving an error message at startup > > Fri Dec 28 10:38:52 2018: networking: Configuring network interfaces > Fri Dec 28 10:38:52 2018: Traceback (most recent call last): > Fri Dec 28 10:38:52 2018: File "/sbin/ifup", line 26, in <module> > Fri Dec 28 10:38:52 2018: from ifupdown.log import log > Fri Dec 28 10:38:52 2018: File "/usr/share/ifupdown2/ifupdown/log.py", > line 163, in <module> > Fri Dec 28 10:38:52 2018: log = Log() > Fri Dec 28 10:38:52 2018: File "/usr/share/ifupdown2/ifupdown/log.py", > line 65, in __init__ > Fri Dec 28 10:38:52 2018: self.syslog_handler = > logging.handlers.SysLogHandler(address=address, facility=facility) > Fri Dec 28 10:38:52 2018: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/handlers.py", > line 761, in __init__ > Fri Dec 28 10:38:52 2018: self._connect_unixsocket(address) > Fri Dec 28 10:38:52 2018: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/handlers.py", > line 804, in _connect_unixsocket > Fri Dec 28 10:38:52 2018: self.socket.connect(address) > Fri Dec 28 10:38:52 2018: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 228, > in meth > Fri Dec 28 10:38:52 2018: return getattr(self._sock,name)(*args) > Fri Dec 28 10:38:52 2018: socket.error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory > > My system is running on sysvinit. > > An acceptable proposal would be to log to stderr until /dev/log has been > setup > > The init script used looks as follows: > > ## BEGIN INIT INFO > # Provides: networking ifupdown > # Required-Start: mountkernfs $local_fs urandom $syslog > # Required-Stop: $local_fs > # Default-Start: S > # Default-Stop: 0 6 > # Short-Description: Raise network interfaces. > # Description: Prepare /run/network directory, ifstate file and > raise network interfaces, or take them down. > ### END INIT INFO > > exec /usr/share/ifupdown2/sbin/start-networking "$@" > > > Bye, > > Joerg >

