On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 23:28 +0800, Ian Chapman wrote: > Hi, > > A bit of background first :) I have a netbook which connects to my LAN > via a Wifi connection and I've configured autofs to pull it's maps from > an LDAP directory. The network connection is working exactly as expected > and receives a reserved IP address assigned by DHCP. The network > connection is handled by NetworkManager and is configured as the default > connection, to connect automatically and importantly an IPv4 address is > required in order for the connection to be considered "successful". > Autofs also works as expected if I manually (re)start the service, it > pulls it maps and I can mount NFS exports. > > Autofs is configured to start on boot. The problem is at the point when > it starts on boot it does not work because the netbook has not been > assigned an IP address yet, (although the wifi interface is up). > > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 90:A4:DE:49:42:31 > inet6 addr: fe80::92a4:deff:fe49:39ca/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) > Interrupt:16 > > (Yes eth1 is the Wifi interface) > > > The autofs init script seems to require the network to be working before > it starts, ie: > > # Required-Start: $network $ypbind > > and in order for the network connection to be successful it needs an > IPv4 address. So my question is, why does autofs get started before an > IPv4 address has been made available? Is there a reasonable way to fix this? > > > > -- > Ian Chapman. Does this help ? Used it for hardwired but not wireless systemctl enable NetworkManager-wait-online.service Also used these Brilliant tools for analysing/reducing boot times !!!! Present in standard install http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/blame-game.html systemd-analyze blame and systemd-analyze plot > plot.svg; eog plot.svg John -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
