retitle #869995 interface stuck in "configuring" if SLAAC prefix announced with preferred lifetime zero thanks
While investigating whether going back to stretch's systemd will solve the issue, I found out that it does already exist in stretch and that the fact that systemd-wait-online gets stuck is probably only a symptom. To reproduce: - create /etc/systemd/network/foo.network with [Match]\nName=e* only - configure radvd to advertise a prefix with lifetime 0[1] - boot the system You'll see networkctl: IDX LINK TYPE OPERATIONAL SETUP 1 lo loopback carrier unmanaged 2 ens3 ether degraded configuring and this stays that way, probably forever (I waited 35 minutes). systemctl start systemd-networkd-wait-online will return with a "failed" state after between one and two minutes. If you give a [Network]\nDHCP=Yes stanza in /etc/systemd/network/foo.network, you'll even get IPv4. My claim that the issue prevents DHCPv4 from happening is wrong, that was my mistake assuming that the default is "DHCP on", while it is necessary to explicitly enable DHCP. It the same behavior with: - plain stretch - plain sid - stretch with only systemd, libpam-systemd and libsystemd0 updated to sid's versions So this is not dependent of static configuration being present, systemd-networkd already begins doing strange things as soon as a prefix is announced with a preferred lifetime of zero. I didn't bother checking what happens when more than one prefix is announced or more than one router is present, since we're already failing in the most trivial case, and this also affects stable. Please say if you think that this warrants its own upstream ticket and I'l happily file one. At the moment, it's sad but the handy trick of announcing an IPv6 prefix with zero lifetime doesn't work in Debian stretch if systemd-networkd is used. Greetings Marc [1] interface br0 { AdvSendAdvert on; MinRtrAdvInterval 600; MaxRtrAdvInterval 1200; prefix 2001:db8::/64 { DeprecatePrefix on; AdvPreferredLifetime 0; }; }; -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421 _______________________________________________ Pkg-systemd-maintainers mailing list Pkg-systemd-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-systemd-maintainers