Comment 27 for bug 950662

I would like to second that this problem is active in 14.10.

System: Custom server with dual Intel Xeon E5-2630 CPU and dual ethernet ports
OS: Bare metal install of Ubuntu server 14.10 plus xfce4 (xubuntu) desktop

After the OS install, the system has consistently been hanging as reported above during the boot sequence.

Following the boot message: "Starting configure network device"

/etc/init/failsafe.conf displays these messages with the associated two minute sleeps:

Waiting for network configuration...
Waiting up to 60 more seconds for network configuration...
Booting system without full network configuration...

However, shortly after the original "Starting configure network device" message, I am able to ping both network interfaces from a remote machine. It appears that although the interfaces are configured and active, plymouth remains confused and fails to issue a successful return code. This system was automatically configuring the two interfaces as p1p1 and p2p1, so I have written an /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file to rename these back to a more respectable eth0 and eth1. However, the hanging problem preceded any of this renaming activity.

This delay is a real pain and appears to affect quite a few people. It would be good to pin down the nature of the problem and fix it once and for all. This appears to extend back to at least 2011 and can be found elsewhere under bug-ids 885596 and 881079.

Here are the particulars for my configuration:

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# cat /etc/network/interfaces
#
auto lo
    iface lo inet loopback
#
auto eth0
   iface eth0 inet static
   address 204.107.91.3
   netmask 255.255.255.0
   gateway 204.107.91.254
   dns-nameservers 199.181.164.1 199.181.164.2 68.87.69.146 68.87.85.98
#
auto eth1
    iface eth1 inet static
    address 204.107.91.4
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    gateway 204.107.91.254
    dns-nameservers 199.181.164.1 199.181.164.2 68.87.69.146 68.87.85.98

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# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr e0:3f:49:e8:1a:31
          inet addr:204.107.91.3 Bcast:204.107.91.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::e23f:49ff:fee8:1a31/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:5704 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4706 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2651217 (2.6 MB) TX bytes:707849 (707.8 KB)
          Interrupt:16 Memory:b3f00000-b3f20000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr e0:3f:49:e8:1a:32
          inet addr:204.107.91.4 Bcast:204.107.91.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::e23f:49ff:fee8:1a32/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:1117 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:125 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:140077 (140.0 KB) TX bytes:14374 (14.3 KB)
          Interrupt:17 Memory:b3e00000-b3e20000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
          RX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:893 (893.0 B) TX bytes:893 (893.0 B)

virbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 56:ac:3d:07:64:e8
          inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

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# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
default router 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 1000 0 0 eth0
192.168.122.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 virbr0
cjsanet * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
cjsanet * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1

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# cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="e0:3f:49:e8:1a:31", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", NAME="eth0"

SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="e0:3f:49:e8:1a:32", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", NAME="eth1"

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