Comment 17 for bug 847782

Hi Clint

Thanks for the changes in failsafe.conf, neat work! A ten second countdown would probably give slightly better feedback to the user (but it isn't essential or anything):

 $PLYMOUTH message --text="Waiting up to 60 more seconds for network configuration..." || :
 sleep 10

 $PLYMOUTH message --text="Waiting up to 50 more seconds for network configuration..." || :
 sleep 10

 $PLYMOUTH message --text="Waiting up to 40 more seconds for network configuration..." || :
 sleep 10

         [etc]

I also tested removing the "iface eth0" and there is no delay, so the fix to bug #838968 seems to be working ok, which will alleviate the situation here

> I'm not convinced that normal installs
> lead to 'auto ethX' in /etc/network/interfaces. Only installs that
> started life without network-manager will have it, which is certainly
> not the norm.

Yes, that was the initial understanding. However, comment #5 by Robert Hooker seemed to indicate that this is not the case (wouldn't the normal live CD always initiate NetworkManager). But I downloaded the Beta 1 live CD, burned a USB image and I still couldn't reproduce Robert's observation. I was using a DHCP connection.

@Robert: could you please give a little more details on how to reproduce what you see? Maybe show your interfaces file?