[Bug 1487679] Re: Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job nbd-client.service/start

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

@pitti, since
1) wouter isn't planning to fix this upstream soonish (Debian freeze is months ahead),
2) the issue is serious, i.e. people that install nbd-client, then randomly don't have network-manager running after reboots,
3) the included patch is surely better than the existing situation, i.e. it solves the ordering cycle issue by just starting nbd-client later on,

would you approve an SRU for the included patch,
or do you have some better idea on how to handle this?

Thanks!

** Patch added: "no-required-start-network.patch"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nbd/+bug/1487679/+attachment/4646305/+files/no-required-start-network.patch

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Title:
  Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job nbd-client.service/start

Status in nbd package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 15.04
  Release:	15.04

  $ apt-cache policy nbd-client
  nbd-client:
    Installed: 1:3.8-4ubuntu0.1
    Candidate: 1:3.8-4ubuntu0.1
    Version table:
   *** 1:3.8-4ubuntu0.1 0
          500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid-updates/main amd64 Packages
          500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid-security/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1:3.8-4 0
          500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages

  I'm using the nbd-client to mount some raw disk images over the
  network but starting the nbd-client automatically during bootup does
  not happen due to the following:

  Aug 22 08:54:20 fractal kernel: [   11.875885] systemd[1]: Found dependency on nbd-client.service/start
  Aug 22 08:54:20 fractal kernel: [   11.875890] systemd[1]: Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job nbd-client.service/start
  Aug 22 08:54:20 fractal kernel: [   11.875891] systemd[1]: Job nbd-client.service/start deleted to break ordering cycle starting with basic.target/start

  Meaning after boot, I have to manually run `sudo ndb-client start`
  every time I want to access these images. Note that this is no
  diskless system, the images I mount via NBD do not contain the local
  system, they are totally unrelated.

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