Hi, occasionally I experience a hang in booting during the network setup. The boot screen shows a timeout of 5min 7sec going to 6min 37sec after the former expired. Then the system starts normally and the networks work, including openvpn and barracudavpn (when in use).
I didn't file a report with reportbug, since I believe it has to do with the interaction of packages and not a single package. As far as I remember, the behavior appeared when I installed openvpn. With it came the WiFi package and the first use of the Network-Manager-Applet. My normal network connection is cable based to a LAN and routed out via a DSL modem to the internet. It is configured manually via /etc/network/interfaces. Since my tower machine has no WiFi, I suspect that the WiFi package(s) look for one, for six and a half minutes and then gives up. Apart from this behavior I wonder, why WiFi packages would be in a dependency list of the openvpn package. I can't tell with certainty now, since I don't have detailed records, but the hang does not occur every boot, and may have some relation to hardware initialization, as it may be rarer or not happen, when I reboot into Debian from Windows 7. Sometimes the machine hangs in networking for about 2 minutes in shutdown too, again showing a timeout and counting seconds. My system runs Debian 10.5 now but the behavior is much older. If you tell me how, I can send you when I installed what. Kind Regards, Armin Faltl