[gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

On 2023-10-17, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have 4 Ubuntu-based machines here and over the last 6 years I've
> never seen a 1 minute delay to login, much less 5 minutes.

I see it all the time. Two minutes is the most common delay that I run
into, but I've seen longer. The two-minute delay I frequently run into
has usually got something to do with networking. For example, if one
of the links is down, Ubuntu is really fond of waiting a couple
mintues for it to come up before it finishes booting. [If it doesn't
wait for all the network interfaces, how is it going to do all that
cloudy crap nobody really wants?]

People have been complaining about that one for years and years and
years. There have been countless web pages written about it with
almost as many different answers/suggestions.  Here's a recent one:

https://devicetests.com/fix-waiting-for-network-configuration-error-ubuntu-startup

The really fun part is that since the methods used for configuring the
network on Ubuntu change with the seasons, 95% of the suggested fixes
you find are irrelevent even if they were on-target at one point.

I've run into various other (less common) causes of Ubuntu boot
delays, but it's usually waiting for "network configuration".

And then there are the delays during shutdown...

And how about the stupid #@$% "modem manager" that mucks with serial
ports looking for dial-up modems. Yea, that still needs to be
installed and enabled by default on every Ubuntu install on the
planet...

--
Grant