[Bug 1489979] Re: initiramfs-tools: configure_network retry indefinitely option

[Benjamin Drung]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better.

Please submit the change to Debian so that we do not need to carry
another change in Ubuntu only. One way to submit it is to open a merge
request on https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/initramfs-
tools/-/merge_requests

To make the patch more flexible, the command line option could allow
setting the timeout duration or retry count.

** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

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Title:
  initiramfs-tools: configure_network retry indefinitely option

Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  initramfs network booting by default fails after a fixed number of
  attempts/timeout to configure the network. For example, in an
  automation environment with heavy DHCP usage, a system will give up
  trying to get a DHCP lease after 265 seconds. This will require manual
  intervention or a hardware watchdog to power-cycle the system in order
  to retry getting a DHCP lease.

  This patch for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS adds a notimeout kernel command line
  for casper that tells configure_network to instead retry indefinitely
  with an increasing retry interval.

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