Using NetworkManger, per F-9 default. On boot, I see: Starting postfix: failed /var/log/maillog contains postfix/sendmail[...]: fatal: could not find any active network interfaces Which is probably true, since it tries to start before NetworkManager.
Is there no local network interface?
Apparently not until NetworkManager starts.
Then this is a NetworkManager bug. You can not start any network service without at least local network. Assigning to NetworkManager.
fair nuf. Not that you mention it, this may be self-inflicted, since this is an updated box from early in the F9 dev cycle, I manually chkconfig network off chkconfig NetworkMananager on awhile back. Should network service be enabled or disabled? (will try it enabled to see what happens).
confirmed, with both 'network' and 'NetworkManager' services running, things work as expected/advertised. I'll close this. Move along, nothing to see here.
Things are supposed to work with NetworkManager and without network. Reopening.
was talking with notting about this today; there are two circular deps if we'd try to start NM earlier. The first is that dbus depends on syslog, but syslog depends on network. bascially sysvinit and lsb suck. not much we can do here until we get a better init system.
We could always bring up loopback somewhere else. That actually fits the broken LSB definition of 'network'....
Also could have a smarter syslog that queues up messages until the network is available.
see also #bug #439242
Seems recent fixes (in initscripts) to address bug #439242 has also resolved this for me (postfix starts now anyway).
That's strange; it should be mostly unrelated.
nevermind. rechecked, and my comment #11 is incorrect. still a problem alright.
initscripts-8.69-1 confirmed mm, mm, good.