I have a Xen VPS which is booting slowly. OS is Ubuntu 22.04, originally upgraded from 20.04. In recent months (since 30 September, to be precise), it's taking ages to boot.
The culprit turns out to be systemd-networkd-wait-online, with its obligatory 2-minute wait if it's not happy for some reason.
networkctl shows
which looks to me like systemd-networkd isn't managing anything.
(The hosting people are using ifupdown to manage the network.)
If it's relevant, just before the first problematic boot, I ran apt upgrade and it pulled in several systemd-related packages.
From apt/history.log:
What could I do to stop this delay? Do I need systemd-networkd at all? I'm hesitant to just try disabling or removing things, since I don't want to end up breaking anything.
The culprit turns out to be systemd-networkd-wait-online, with its obligatory 2-minute wait if it's not happy for some reason.
networkctl shows
Code:
IDX LINK TYPE OPERATIONAL SETUP
1 lo loopback carrier unmanaged
2 bond0 bond off unmanaged
3 dummy0 ether off unmanaged
4 teql0 void off unmanaged
5 gre0 ipgre off unmanaged
6 gretap0 ether off unmanaged
7 erspan0 ether off unmanaged
8 ip_vti0 tunnel off unmanaged
9 ip6_vti0 tunnel6 off unmanaged
10 sit0 sit off unmanaged
11 ip6tnl0 tunnel6 off unmanaged
12 ip6gre0 ip6gre off unmanaged
13 eth0 ether routable unmanaged(The hosting people are using ifupdown to manage the network.)
If it's relevant, just before the first problematic boot, I ran apt upgrade and it pulled in several systemd-related packages.
From apt/history.log:
Code:
Start-Date: 2023-09-30 19:39:05
Commandline: apt upgrade
Requested-By: user (1000)
Upgrade: udev:amd64 (249.11-0ubuntu3.9, 249.11-0ubuntu3.10), openssh-client:amd64 (1:8.9p1-3ubuntu0.3, 1:8.9p1-3ubuntu0.4), systemd-timesyncd:amd64 (249.11-0ubuntu3.9, 249.11-0ubuntu3.10), libpam-systemd:amd64 (249.11-0ubuntu3.9, 249.11-0ubuntu3.10), ssh:amd64 (1:8.9p1-3ubuntu0.3, 1:8.9p1-3ubuntu0.4), libsystemd0:amd64 (249.11-0ubuntu3.9, 249.11-0ubuntu3.10), libnss-systemd:amd64 (249.11-0ubuntu3.9, 249.11-0ubuntu3.10), openssh-server:amd64 (1:8.9p1-3ubuntu0.3, 1:8.9p1-3ubuntu0.4), systemd:amd64 (249.11-0ubuntu3.9, 249.11-0ubuntu3.10), libudev1:amd64 (249.11-0ubuntu3.9, 249.11-0ubuntu3.10), libc6:amd64 (2.35-0ubuntu3.1, 2.35-0ubuntu3.3), locales:amd64 (2.35-0ubuntu3.1, 2.35-0ubuntu3.3), libc-dev-bin:amd64 (2.35-0ubuntu3.1, 2.35-0ubuntu3.3), openssh-sftp-server:amd64 (1:8.9p1-3ubuntu0.3, 1:8.9p1-3ubuntu0.4), libc-bin:amd64 (2.35-0ubuntu3.1, 2.35-0ubuntu3.3), libc-devtools:amd64 (2.35-0ubuntu3.1, 2.35-0ubuntu3.3), libc6-dev:amd64 (2.35-0ubuntu3.1, 2.35-0ubuntu3.3), systemd-sysv:amd64 (249.11-0ubuntu3.9, 249.11-0ubuntu3.10), ubuntu-advantage-tools:amd64 (28.1~22.04, 29.4~22.04)
End-Date: 2023-09-30 19:39:32