[Bug 1125726] Re: boot-time race between /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate and "/etc/init.d/ntp start"

2016-03-02 Thread Nathan O'Sullivan
Hi Cam, On our hosts, 4 physical interfaces and then a bunch of bonds and bridges taking total up to 12 entries in /etc/network/interfaces . So contention certainly seems plausible? My guests have actually gone back to working normally, so I likely have mis-attributed an unrelated problem that oc

[Bug 1125726] Re: boot-time race between /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate and "/etc/init.d/ntp start"

2016-03-01 Thread Nathan O'Sullivan
This fix is causing problems on Ubuntu 12.04 for me; for both KVM hosts and KVM guests. I see a message like lockfile creation failed: exceeded maximum number of lock attempts On my hosts, it delays boot finishing for several minutes; while some of my guests just never become network accessible.