How to set up static IP in 12.04 and avoid these start-up delays?

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 01:25:33PM +0100, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
> > I have just upgraded a little server system from Ubuntu Server 10.04 to
> > Ubuntu Server 12.04, the upgrade went fairly smoothly and it's basically
> > all working OK.
> > 
> > However there is a very annoying delay has appeared in the boot
> > sequence, while the moving dots display during startup two messages
> > appear:-
> > 
> >     Waiting for network configuration...
> >     [waits for 40 seconds]
> >     Waiting up to 60 more seconds for network configuration...
> >     [waits for 60 secodns]
> > 
> > ... and then the system finally starts up.
> 
> Is this system running a GUI? I had this problem when I configured my
> interfaces in /etc/network/interfaces and also had network-manager
> running.
> 
No GUI.

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Chris Green