[Bug 1061639] Re: Upstartification of /etc/init.d/networking has lost deconfiguring-networking event causing bad side-effects

[René Sitt]

Hello all,

I experienced this bug now for quite a while, since upgrading to Quantal
(64bit) to be exact, and while trying some of the above suggestions, I
observed the following:

Until shortly, I got it fixed by following yota's advice (#21).
Then, after a kernel update to 3.5.0-22 (from 3.5.0-21, I think), the bug began reappearing, despite the workarounds.
Now yesterday, I updated to kernel 3.5.0-23 (from Quantal-Proposed), and it's working again...

>From looking at the changesets, I really don't have a clue where the
reappearing/disappearing of this bug comes from, yet I hope someone more
adept may be able to work it out.

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Title:
  Upstartification of /etc/init.d/networking has lost deconfiguring-
  networking event causing bad side-effects

Status in “ifupdown” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “ifupdown” source package in Quantal:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  In precise, /etc/init.d/networking was a true SysV service script that
  did the following:

  initctl emit deconfiguring-networking

  In quantal, /etc/init.d/networking is now using the upstart-job
  symlink back to the upstart job /etc/init/networking.conf.

  The problem is that the 'deconfiguring-networking' is no longer being
  emitted. This causes dbus to fail to stop on system shutdown which
  causes a cascading effect whereby other Upstart jobs are also not shut
  down. Eventually, the system halt with the message:

  mount: / is busy

  This results in a unclean shutdown which can result in FSCK being run
  / slow / bad user boot experience.

  The two main options here are:

  1) Re-instate the 'deconfiguring-networking' event.
  2) Change the dbus 'stop on' condition and update upstart-events.7 to remove 'deconfiguring-networking'.

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