Am Dienstag, 11. Dezember 2018 schrieb Gonzalo Pérez de Olaguer Córdoba:
> Hi Michael K.
>
> El Fri, 7 Dec 2018 12:45:11 +0100
> "Michael K." <michael@???> escribió:
>
> > After a Dev1 Setup on a Laptop (whit eth0), i have to wait a long time
> > for the eth0 on "cold boot".
> >
> > I "cold boot" my Laptop
> > I look to the "Boot Messages"
> > I see the following Msg:
> >
> > Configuring Network Interfaces ifup: Waiting for Lock on
> > /run/network/ifstat.eth0
> >
> > After 2 or 3 minutes to wait, the Laptop boot up,
>
> Just in case this could help, I've been having this same *symptom*
> on KVM virtual machines running ascii.
>
> My situation was eth0 being configured through DHCP and using the
> dhcp client from the isc-dhcp-client package, which sends (maybe buggy)
> DHCPDECLINE packets.
>
> My workaround was to replace isc-dhcp-client with pump.
>
> If you want more details, tell me and I will continue writing.
>
> Bye,
> Salo.
>

Now this is a neet tick! It also solves the issue that booting hangs on the said message when no network cable is attached to eth0.

Nik

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