Hi,

 

I'm facing a problem with my Orange Pi Zero with the latest Armbian version.

I noticed that when I provide an internet connection type that is not valid (wrong psk, ethernet but no cable plugged in, etc.) and I reboot the system, it hangs just before asking the username and password.

Sometimes it takes up to 10 minutes before keeping going.

 

These are the last boot logs that I see:

[   11.209226] systemd[1]: Starting Create list of static device nodes for the current kernel...
[   11.219428] systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Load Kernel Module drm being skipped.
[   11.244988] systemd[1]: Started Nameserver information manager.
[   11.254315] systemd[1]: Reached target Network (Pre).
[   11.264815] systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Set Up Additional Binary Formats being skipped.
[   11.274833] systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in File System Check on Root Device being skipped.
[   11.293312] systemd[1]: Starting Load Kernel Modules...
[   11.317312] systemd[1]: Starting Remount Root and Kernel File Systems...
[   11.343632] systemd[1]: Starting udev Coldplug all Devices...
[   11.376556] systemd[1]: Mounted POSIX Message Queue File System.
[   11.386689] systemd[1]: Mounted Kernel Debug File System.
[   11.396501] systemd[1]: Mounted Kernel Trace File System.
[   11.413706] systemd[1]: Finished Create list of static device nodes for the current kernel.
[   11.416094] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p1): re-mounted. Opts: commit=600,errors=remount-ro
[   11.458472] systemd[1]: Finished Remount Root and Kernel File Systems.
[   11.472062] systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Rebuild Hardware Database being skipped.
[   11.481213] systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Platform Persistent Storage Archival being skipped.
[   11.505488] systemd[1]: Starting Load/Save Random Seed...
[   11.514898] systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Create System Users being skipped.
[   11.553531] systemd[1]: Starting Create Static Device Nodes in /dev...
[   11.583442] g_serial gadget: Gadget Serial v2.4
[   11.588174] g_serial gadget: g_serial ready   
[   11.610410] systemd[1]: Finished Load Kernel Modules.
[   11.626029] systemd[1]: Finished Load/Save Random Seed.
[   11.650175] systemd[1]: Mounting FUSE Control File System...
[   11.671958] systemd[1]: Mounting Kernel Configuration File System...
[   11.694089] systemd[1]: Starting Apply Kernel Variables...
[   11.724736] systemd[1]: Mounted FUSE Control File System.
[   11.741343] systemd[1]: Finished Create Static Device Nodes in /dev.
[   11.751604] systemd[1]: Mounted Kernel Configuration File System.
[   11.776484] systemd[1]: Starting udev Kernel Device Manager...
[   12.843290] thermal thermal_zone0: binding zone cpu_thermal with cdev thermal-cpufreq-0 failed:-22

 

**Usually here after a couple of seconds I'm asked to provide the username and password**

 

After that the system hangs for a very long time.

I stopped and disabled NetworkManager-wait-online.service but nothing changed.

Is there something else that prevents the boot phase to finish before having established the connection?

 

Thanks a lot

Mattia

 

I found out that the networking.service has a param called TimeoutStartSec that defaults to 5min in /lib/systemd/system/networking.service. I lowered that value to 15 seconds and the problem is gone.

Here's a useful command:

sed -i -r 's/TimeoutStartSec=.*/TimeoutStartSec=15/' /lib/systemd/system/networking.service