Package: ifupdown
Version: 0.8.35
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
booting is slowed down by failing ifupdown_pre.service. The problem is
around since a few days only.
[FAILED] Failed to start Helper to …chronize boot up for ifupdown.
See 'systemctl status ifupdown-pre.service' for details.
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Raise network interfaces.
● ifupdown-pre.service - Helper to synchronize boot up for ifupdown
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ifupdown-pre.service; static;
vendor pres
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2020-05-07 22:01:37
CEST; 3min 1
Process: 269 ExecStart=/bin/sh -c if [ "$CONFIGURE_INTERFACES" != "no"
] && [
Main PID: 269 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Feb 14 11:12:00 server systemd[1]: Starting Helper to synchronize boot up fo
May 07 22:01:37 server systemd[1]: ifupdown-pre.service: Main process exited
May 07 22:01:37 server systemd[1]: ifupdown-pre.service: Failed with result
May 07 22:01:37 server systemd[1]: Failed to start Helper to synchronize boo
My system is booted via iSCSI. So the only available network interface
is needed before the init process starts.
/etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0:
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auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.8
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.0.1
auto eth0:1
iface eth0:1 inet dhcp
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Best regards
Heinrich Schuchardt
-- Package-specific info:
--- /etc/network/interfaces:
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet manual
# This is an autoconfigured IPv6 interface
iface eth0 inet6 auto
--- /etc/network/interfaces.d/*:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.123.28
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.123.254
auto eth0:1
iface eth0:1 inet dhcp
--- up and down scripts installed:
/etc/network/if-down.d:
total 4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 919 Sep 16 2018 sendmail
/etc/network/if-post-down.d:
total 4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 919 Sep 16 2018 sendmail
/etc/network/if-pre-up.d:
total 0
/etc/network/if-up.d:
total 4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1714 Sep 16 2018 sendmail
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.3
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)
Kernel: Linux 5.5.11-arm64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages ifupdown depends on:
ii adduser 3.118
ii iproute2 4.20.0-2
ii libc6 2.28-10
ii lsb-base 10.2019051400
Versions of packages ifupdown recommends:
ii isc-dhcp-client [dhcp-client] 4.4.1-2
Versions of packages ifupdown suggests:
pn ppp <none>
pn rdnssd <none>
-- no debconf information
