-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 I'm looking into a problem with the mediatomb package not starting up correctly on recent Ubuntu releases, and I see that the problem is that the service depends on a network up event generated by network-manager to start. While it actually depends on eth0 being up, n-m decides that "networking" is up as soon as it sees no interfaces that have a phy link need more work done ( which seems to mean still negotiating a DHCP lease ), and so it tends to declare that networking is "up" as soon as lo is configured, because eth0's phy status is down.
This seems to be pulled from the MII info for the link, which as far as I can see, only indicates up/down, rather than any sort of state like "something seems to be there, give me a second to negotiate the LLC" or "I don't know yet, give me a second". For my e1000e, this negotiation seems to take about 10 seconds, by which time n-m has decided that all interfaces that are plugged in are configured so networking is "up". Is there no way for an ethernet adapter to indicate that it does not yet know for sure that it is not plugged in, and is still trying to negotiate a link ( and thus user space should wait a second instead of concluding that everything that is plugged and therefore likely to ever come up in is configured )? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJWX7InAAoJEBB5UWFcu6UWwGQIAJ8Qc1/MdZl3yrDE3gMqkA1h jJsrjJBC2gVxQqrdty6WZs4aiXgfMVzP7ROCKVNzfV3RBDl6M0g8EqQGkL7WDIgw QrYRnELTKpbWVJKa0iweUeNhTunK7qQmYvS0REx2idLd94zPl+SRcrrugEvTesX2 9jufkt+rfEQpEiITzDU4Dy86criHR4HmOhIgUCkJrtIT2Z84V8l4R37mJjFG72qy qYrag+hiajf2+JRkNq5VmdsYeJvnA6v78MkOepjRVvPmCioJ5y6E9v5p6OslCa9L NrqMVphS2n8JOQab7vwpJYFfan2Z6/p4t5+7mCwLQJqN/9J7w4FkA+LbEFGVAvA= =Jswv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
