wpa starts too late causing delay at boot

This has been fixed upstream as https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/netplan/commit/ffda192123b4de0c1f270767c3334d75ef2ebcc1

This bug was fixed in the package netplan.io - 0.96-0ubuntu2

---------------
netplan.io (0.96-0ubuntu2) disco; urgency=medium

  * d/p/0001-Automatically-skip-tests-when-wifi-is-clearly-unavai.patch:
    Update wifi tests to try to make them more reliable.
  * debian/tests/control: explicilty mark wifi tests flaky.

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:11:47 -0400

Hello Mathieu, or anyone else affected,

Accepted netplan.io into cosmic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netplan.io/0.96-0ubuntu0.18.10.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-cosmic to verification-done-cosmic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-cosmic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Hello Mathieu, or anyone else affected,

Accepted netplan.io into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netplan.io/0.96-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Hello Mathieu, or anyone else affected,

Accepted netplan.io into cosmic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netplan.io/0.96-0ubuntu0.18.10.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-cosmic to verification-done-cosmic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-cosmic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Hello Mathieu, or anyone else affected,

Accepted netplan.io into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netplan.io/0.96-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Verification-done for cosmic:

With a netplan config setting up only wireless:

network:
    version: 2
    renderer: networkd
    wifis:
        wlan0:
            dhcp4: yes
            dhcp6: yes
            access-points:
                cyphermox.net:
                    password: [redacted]

The system appears to come up properly in relatively short time; definitely less than the previously visible 2mn to bring up with wifi.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ uptime
 18:22:31 up 1 min, 1 user, load average: 2.44, 1.08, 0.40
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ systemd-analyze time
Startup finished in 55.346s (userspace)
graphical.target reached after 42.780s in userspace
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ systemd-analyze blame | grep wait-online
            57ms systemd-networkd-wait-online.service
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ systemd-analyze blame | grep netplan
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ systemd-analyze blame | grep wpa
            57ms wpa_supplicant.service
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether b8:27:eb:1b:f5:e2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether b8:27:eb:4e:a0:b7 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 10.3.1.227/22 brd 10.3.3.255 scope global dynamic wlan0
       valid_lft 14288sec preferred_lft 14288sec
    inet6 2001:470:b0cc::78f/128 scope global dynamic noprefixroute
       valid_lft 28688sec preferred_lft 17888sec
    inet6 fe80::ba27:ebff:fe4e:a0b7/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ dpkg -l netplan.io | grep ii
ii netplan.io 0.96-0ubuntu0.18.10.2 arm64 YAML network configuration abstraction for various backends

Verification done for bionic on a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 with USB wifi adapter:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ dpkg -l netplan.io | grep ^ii
ii netplan.io 0.96-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 arm64 YAML network configuration abstraction for various backends
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 80:1f:02:e6:92:c1 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.80.83/16 brd 192.168.255.255 scope global dynamic wlan0
       valid_lft 42998sec preferred_lft 42998sec
    inet6 fd13:37d0:1c6d::b1c/128 scope global noprefixroute
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fd13:37d0:1c6d:0:821f:2ff:fee6:92c1/64 scope global mngtmpaddr noprefixroute
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::821f:2ff:fee6:92c1/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/netplan/50-cloud-init.yaml
# This file is generated from information provided by
# the datasource. Changes to it will not persist across an instance.
# To disable cloud-init's network configuration capabilities, write a file
# /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/99-disable-network-config.cfg with the following:
# network: {config: disabled}
network:
    version: 2
    renderer: networkd
    wifis:
        wlan0:
            dhcp4: true
            access-points:
                "waveform":
                    password: <redacted>
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ systemd-analyze blame | grep wait-online
           942ms systemd-networkd-wait-online.service

Previously, systemd-networkd-wait-online had been 2m 17sec. After upgrade of netplan.io, reboot time was considerably shorter.

Hello Mathieu, or anyone else affected,

Accepted netplan.io into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netplan.io/0.96-0ubuntu0.18.04.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

This is still verification-done for bionic; re-upload was to skip some failing tunnel tests due to a difference in kernel behavior.

This bug was fixed in the package netplan.io - 0.96-0ubuntu0.18.10.2

---------------
netplan.io (0.96-0ubuntu0.18.10.2) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * d/p/0001-Partially-revert-the-change-for-enabling-systemd-net.patch:
    Partially revert changes to networkd jobs ordering: leave systemd-networkd
    enabled in multi-user.target instead of network-online.target, as in some
    minimal setups there might be no job requiring network-online.target,
    whereas the natural target to reach for booting is multi-user.target.
    (LP: #1821867)

netplan.io (0.96-0ubuntu0.18.10.1) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * Backport netplan.io 0.96 to 18.10.
  * debian/patches/glib_changes.patch: Patch tests to work again on older GLib.
  * debian/control: adjust Depends for cosmic / re-add nplan package.

netplan.io (0.96-0ubuntu1) disco; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release 0.96.
    - Moved netplan-wpa@ services to earlier at boot (LP: #1819014)
    - Restart services when unconfiguring (LP: #1811868)
    - Use the .nmconnection extension for NM keyfiles (LP: #1817655)
    - Fixed integration tests runner to correctly report failures
    - Enforce integrity for use-routes in networkd backend.
    - Ensure terminal state at end of test (LP: #1817660)
    - Various small test fixes.
    - Fix typos in documentation.
  * debian/control: Update Maintainer for ubuntu upload.

netplan.io (0.95-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Set Priority to optional (Closes: #920327).

netplan.io (0.95-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * Update autopkgtests from the upstream.
  * Add debian/watch following GitHub releases.
  * Add Homepage (Closes: #917233).

netplan.io (0.95) disco; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - Added support for WPA Enterprise / 802.1x authentication (LP: #1739578)
    - Added support for setting up IP tunnels; supporting the types: ipip,
      gretap, VTI, ISATAP (NetworkManager only), sit, gre, ipip6 and ip6ip6.
      + Fixes sit (ipv6) tunnels using Hurricane Electric (LP: #1799487)
    - Add support to override networkd UseMTU setting (LP: #1807273)
    - Generate output files in dependency order
    - Refactored unit and integration tests, along with various cleanups.
    - Add DHCP overrides to control route usage and default metric for DHCP
      routes. (LP: #1776228)
    - Mitigate against bad matching on devices behind bonds then they share
      the same MAC from a physical interface. (LP: #1804861)
    - Added snapcraft.yaml.

netplan.io (0.90.1) disco; urgency=medium

  * Do not assume /etc/network exists in postinst, as netbase 5.5 no longer
    creates it.
  * netplan/cli/commands/ip.py: fix a flake.

netplan.io (0.90) disco; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - build: fixes for building on RPM-based distros
    - build: code prettiness changes (make indentation consistent)
    - Fix device name-changes detection (LP: #1770082)
    - Add support for IPv6 Privacy Extensions (LP: #1750392)
    - Add dhcp{4,6}-overrides to control DNS, NTP, hostname updates via DHCP
      (LP: #1759014)
    - Clarify MAC and MTU setting requirements (LP: #1800668)
    - Various documentation fixes (LP: #1800669)
    -...

The verification of the Stable Release Update for netplan.io has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

A possible SRU regression has been reported against netplan.io 0.96-0ubuntu0.18.10.2 in LP: #1825206. This version has been rolled back to -proposed while the investigation is ongoing.

Hello Mathieu, or anyone else affected,

Accepted netplan.io into cosmic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netplan.io/0.96-0ubuntu0.18.10.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-cosmic to verification-done-cosmic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-cosmic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Hello Mathieu, or anyone else affected,

Accepted netplan.io into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netplan.io/0.96-0ubuntu0.18.04.4 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

systemd's wpa-* job does not require verifying again; this will not have changed in this new SRU. Marking verification-done again for bionic and cosmic.

This bug was fixed in the package netplan.io - 0.96-0ubuntu0.18.04.4

---------------
netplan.io (0.96-0ubuntu0.18.04.4) bionic; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/git_revert_explicit_renderer_def_ebc212a.patch: revert
    commit ebc212a: make renderer values explicit at the end of each parsing
    pass; it breaks "default" renderer behavior when multiple files may set
    a global renderer and expect the last to take effect globally.
    (LP: #1825206)
  * debian/patches/git_reorg_netdef_validation_181b583.patch: correct the
    fallout from the above change: validate netdefs in a single pass at the
    very end of parsing, once we know which is the applicable renderer. This
    makes sure tunnels get validated correctly.

netplan.io (0.96-0ubuntu0.18.04.3) bionic; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/disable-networkd-tunnels-ipip-gre.patch: disable IPIP and
    GRE tunnel tests; those appear to be broken because neither the kernel nor
    networkd bring up the device automatically as in other releases.

netplan.io (0.96-0ubuntu0.18.04.2) bionic; urgency=medium

  * d/p/0001-Partially-revert-the-change-for-enabling-systemd-net.patch:
    Partially revert changes to networkd jobs ordering: leave systemd-networkd
    enabled in multi-user.target instead of network-online.target, as in some
    minimal setups there might be no job requiring network-online.target,
    whereas the natural target to reach for booting is multi-user.target.
    (LP: #1821867)

netplan.io (0.96-0ubuntu0.18.04.1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Backport netplan.io 0.96 to 18.04.
  * debian/patches/glib_changes.patch: Patch tests to work again on older GLib.
  * debian/control: adjust Depends for bionic / re-add nplan package.

netplan.io (0.96-0ubuntu1) disco; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release 0.96.
    - Moved netplan-wpa@ services to earlier at boot (LP: #1819014)
    - Restart services when unconfiguring (LP: #1811868)
    - Use the .nmconnection extension for NM keyfiles (LP: #1817655)
    - Fixed integration tests runner to correctly report failures
    - Enforce integrity for use-routes in networkd backend.
    - Ensure terminal state at end of test (LP: #1817660)
    - Various small test fixes.
    - Fix typos in documentation.
  * debian/control: Update Maintainer for ubuntu upload.

netplan.io (0.95-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Set Priority to optional (Closes: #920327).

netplan.io (0.95-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * Update autopkgtests from the upstream.
  * Add debian/watch following GitHub releases.
  * Add Homepage (Closes: #917233).

netplan.io (0.95) disco; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - Added support for WPA Enterprise / 802.1x authentication (LP: #1739578)
    - Added support for setting up IP tunnels; supporting the types: ipip,
      gretap, VTI, ISATAP (NetworkManager only), sit, gre, ipip6 and ip6ip6.
      + Fixes sit (ipv6) tunnels using Hurricane Electric (LP: #1799487)
    - Add support to override networkd UseMTU setting (LP: #1807273)
    - Generate output files in dependency order
    - Refactored unit and integration tests, along with various cleanups.
    - Add DHCP overrides to control ...

This bug was fixed in the package netplan.io - 0.96-0ubuntu0.18.10.3

---------------
netplan.io (0.96-0ubuntu0.18.10.3) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/git_revert_explicit_renderer_def_ebc212a.patch: revert
    commit ebc212a: make renderer values explicit at the end of each parsing
    pass; it breaks "default" renderer behavior when multiple files may set
    a global renderer and expect the last to take effect globally.
    (LP: #1825206)
  * debian/patches/git_reorg_netdef_validation_181b583.patch: correct the
    fallout from the above change: validate netdefs in a single pass at the
    very end of parsing, once we know which is the applicable renderer. This
    makes sure tunnels get validated correctly.

netplan.io (0.96-0ubuntu0.18.10.2) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * d/p/0001-Partially-revert-the-change-for-enabling-systemd-net.patch:
    Partially revert changes to networkd jobs ordering: leave systemd-networkd
    enabled in multi-user.target instead of network-online.target, as in some
    minimal setups there might be no job requiring network-online.target,
    whereas the natural target to reach for booting is multi-user.target.
    (LP: #1821867)

netplan.io (0.96-0ubuntu0.18.10.1) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * Backport netplan.io 0.96 to 18.10.
  * debian/patches/glib_changes.patch: Patch tests to work again on older GLib.
  * debian/control: adjust Depends for cosmic / re-add nplan package.

netplan.io (0.96-0ubuntu1) disco; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release 0.96.
    - Moved netplan-wpa@ services to earlier at boot (LP: #1819014)
    - Restart services when unconfiguring (LP: #1811868)
    - Use the .nmconnection extension for NM keyfiles (LP: #1817655)
    - Fixed integration tests runner to correctly report failures
    - Enforce integrity for use-routes in networkd backend.
    - Ensure terminal state at end of test (LP: #1817660)
    - Various small test fixes.
    - Fix typos in documentation.
  * debian/control: Update Maintainer for ubuntu upload.

netplan.io (0.95-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Set Priority to optional (Closes: #920327).

netplan.io (0.95-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * Update autopkgtests from the upstream.
  * Add debian/watch following GitHub releases.
  * Add Homepage (Closes: #917233).

netplan.io (0.95) disco; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - Added support for WPA Enterprise / 802.1x authentication (LP: #1739578)
    - Added support for setting up IP tunnels; supporting the types: ipip,
      gretap, VTI, ISATAP (NetworkManager only), sit, gre, ipip6 and ip6ip6.
      + Fixes sit (ipv6) tunnels using Hurricane Electric (LP: #1799487)
    - Add support to override networkd UseMTU setting (LP: #1807273)
    - Generate output files in dependency order
    - Refactored unit and integration tests, along with various cleanups.
    - Add DHCP overrides to control route usage and default metric for DHCP
      routes. (LP: #1776228)
    - Mitigate against bad matching on devices behind bonds then they share
      the same MAC from a physical interface. (LP: #1804861)
    - Added snapcraft.yaml.

netplan.io (0.90.1) disco; urgency=medium

  * Do ...