[mythtv-users] Select Country and Language in every boot

[Eric Sharkey]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 11:49 AM, David Linville
<dlinvill at networksdown.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
>> The system I have in my kitchen (Debian unstable) is really messed up
>> right now.  I can't get it to boot at all normally.  It is waiting for
>> the network to be configured, but it isn't configuring the network, so
>> it just hangs.  To get it to boot, I have to boot with
>> systemd.unit=emergency.target, configure the network manually with
>> ifconfig, then resume the boot.  Systemd is so opaque as to how it
>> actually does things that I can't figure out how to fix this.  I've
>> spent hours on this, and I've been using Debian for nearly 19 years
>> now.  It really shouldn't be this hard.
>
> If you changed a network card (new MAC address) Debian/Ubuntu will save the
> old MAC and in the middle of the boot switch the new card from eth0 to eth1
> breaking the in progress network config.  Check in
> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules if this seems like the issue.

Thanks, but I'm well aware of that one and how to fix it.  This is
something else.  I think it's some sort of systemd dependency loop
that it's breaking incorrectly, leading it to wait for something to
finish that it hasn't yet started.

Eric