Linode with latest Arch Linux never brings networking online at boot?

Hello, I use Linode for my primary VPS related stuff. On it, I usually use Arch Linux. Recently however, I've faced a pretty big issue. If I spin up a new linode, do a pacman -Syu and then reboot it, it will not setup networking when it starts up.
I have to manually login with their Lish out-of-band access to login and start networking manually (ie, by doing dhcpcd eth0). I've filed a support ticket with them, but they said it was basically out of their control and pointed me here. I've never had this issue until recently.
I've already tried setting up netctl and such for defaults, but it still ends up with no DHCP lease upon boot, and I'm not sure why. Anyone know of this issue and/or how to fix it?

I had this same issue. I fixed it by (via Lish) systemctl enabling and starting dhcpcd.service, and (if that didn't fix ssh) restarting sshd.service.
I also found this interesting:
[root@sandbox ~]# cat /usr/lib/systemd/network/10-dhcp.network
[Match]
Name=eth0
[Network]
DHCP=yes
Is networkd supposed to be handling network configuration, and if so, shouldn't that be "ef*" rather than eth0?
Is there a better solution that should be put in place to fix this? How does Arch normally do DHCP on Ethernet right now?
Last edited by STUART (2014-08-05 12:23:04)

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