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[Phillip Susi <psusi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I've done some more investigating and identified the problem; I'm just
not sure what the solution is.  The problem is that nm decides the
network is "up" as soon as there are no interfaces that still have work
to be done ( such as obtaining a dhcp lease ).  My e1000e interface
comes up in the disconnected state, which nm considers to be an unusable
state with no work to be done, and so it declares the network to be all
set up.  I'm not sure why, but it takes another 20 seconds for the
e1000e to auto negotiate the 100 mbps link speed with my router, and
then the link transitions to up, and nm starts trying to get a dhcp
lease.

I suppose I'm still wondering why it takes so long for the link to come
up, but I guess the real problem is the fact that nm will consider
networking to be up so long as there is no link yet.  I'm thinking it
needs patched to not consider the network up until at least one
interface is actually functioning.

Another possible fix is for mediatomb and any other services that depend
on "network" to instead depend on "ifup@eth0.service".


** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1453602

Title:
  mediatomb starts before network comes online

Status in mediatomb package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  mediatomb fails to start at boot because the network is not yet up.
  It's unit file lists After: network-online.target, but this target
  comes up before NetworkManager has brought the network up.  I'm
  guessing it only counts networks configured in /etc/interfaces.

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