On 17-11-2020 11:20, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 10:58:47AM +0100, Kees Bakker wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On my systems I have two ethernet devices, only one is connected. >> And thus I have excluded one in the systemd configuration, as you can >> see below. >> >> This is mainly to avoid the needless timeout during boot up. >> >> apt-helper however is ignoring this configuration and it is causing >> unnecessary errors in my syslog. >> >> Nov 16 04:30:24 luts systemd[1]: Starting Daily apt download activities... >> Nov 16 04:30:54 luts systemd-networkd-wait-online[993706]: Event loop >> failed: Connection timed out >> Nov 16 04:30:54 luts apt-helper[993698]: E: Sub-process >> /lib/systemd/systemd-networkd-wait-online returned an error code (1) >> >> apt-helper is simply running /lib/systemd/systemd-networkd-wait-online >> directly >> without looking at the systemd configuration. >> >> I'm not familiar enough with systemctl to know whether there is a better >> alternative. >> Perhaps: systemctl -q is-active systemd-networkd-wait-online > There is no better alternative. The service runs once at boot, but > we need to check for network connectivity at resume too. And we're > not going to parse systemd units to figure out what you did to > them. > > I don't think that the systemd interface of --ignore is correct > here, the configuration which networks should be considered relevant > for online-ness should be stored in the .network files. In fact, > there's even an option already for that: > > RequiredForOnline=no >
OK, that good be the right solution. I've created a file /etc/systemd/network/99-eno2.network [Match] Name=eno2 [Link] RequiredForOnline=no But I don't understand how to make this effective. Running "networkctl reload" does not seem to read the .network files. Oh, and netplan may also play a role. I have this: network: version: 2 renderer: networkd ethernets: eno1: dhcp4: no dhcp6: no addresses: ... eno2: dhcp4: no dhcp6: no I'm guessing I have to remove the eno2 part and try again. (( But this is a remote system, so I have to be careful not to loose the network connection. )) -- Kees Bakker
