vexpress: ubuntu: Booting without an ethernet connection hangs

Bug #966406 reported by Tixy (Jon Medhurst)
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Linaro Ubuntu
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Bug Description

Booting the board without a physical network connection gets severe delays during boot where it appears there are minute long timeouts and retries in bringing up the network interface and sending DHCP requests.

Once we get past these delays, the boot process seems to hang at the
"Configure virtual network devices." step

Seen in 12.03 RC1 build (http://snapshots.linaro.org/oneiric/ build id 20120327)

summary: - vexpress-a9: ubuntu: Booting without ethernet connection hangs
+ vexpress-a9: ubuntu: Booting without an ethernet connection hangs
description: updated
visibility: private → public
tags: added: ethernet linaro-ubuntu
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Ricardo Salveti (rsalveti) wrote : Re: vexpress-a9: ubuntu: Booting without an ethernet connection hangs

This is because the interface is managed by /etc/network/interfaces, and the boot script forces it to be up (until it reach the timeout) while booting your system.

Changed in linaro-ubuntu:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Riku Voipio (riku-voipio) wrote : Re: [Bug 966406] Re: vexpress-a9: ubuntu: Booting without an ethernet connection hangs

Same on snowball.

This is nasty as the serial console doesn't show what is happening.

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Tixy (Jon Medhurst) (tixy) wrote : Re: vexpress-a9: ubuntu: Booting without an ethernet connection hangs

On the 12.04 Precise based release I don't see the hang any more at "Configure virtual network devices."
There is still about 5 minutes added to boot due to network timeouts.

Fathi Boudra (fboudra)
Changed in linaro-ubuntu:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
summary: - vexpress-a9: ubuntu: Booting without an ethernet connection hangs
+ vexpress: ubuntu: Booting without an ethernet connection hangs
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Tixy (Jon Medhurst) (tixy) wrote :

Was apparently fixed many months ago but status not updated accordingly. To double check I've verified the 13.01 developer image doesn't have this bug.

Changed in linaro-landing-team-arm:
status: New → Fix Released
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