[systemd-devel] udev too late renaming network interfaces

[Tom Gundersen]

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Grant <emailgrant at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm on Gentoo and when the system tries to start my network interfaces
> at boot, I get:

What software is managing your network? It needs to listen with
libudev for the network devices to be fully initialized by udev,
otherwise this will happen...

Cheers,

Tom

> Cannot find device "enp0s20u2u1"
>  *   ERROR: interface enp0s20u2u1 does not exist
>  *   Ensure that you have loaded the correct kernel module for your hardware
>  * ERROR: net.enp0s20u2u1 failed to start
>  * Bringing up interface enp0s20u2u2
> Cannot find device "enp0s20u2u2"
>  *   ERROR: interface enp0s20u2u2 does not exist
>  *   Ensure that you have loaded the correct kernel module for your hardware
>  * ERROR: net.enp0s20u2u2 failed to start
>
> It seems udev is taking too long to rename my USB ethernet interfaces
> from eth0 and eth1 to the above names.  Once the system is booted, I
> can start the interfaces just fine.  I do like the renaming
> functionality so I can plug any USB ethernet adapter into a particular
> USB port and it will work without changes so I'd rather not disable
> that.  Everything is built into the kernel, I'm not loading any
> modules.  I have 5 Dell XPS 13 systems and only one is exhibiting this
> problem.
>
> - Grant
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