[SOLVED] systemd dhcpcd on boot failure

Question

For the past month or so, my systemd service for dhcpcd has been failing to properly start on boot. However, I've noticed that this only occurs on a fresh start after a shutdown. It does not occur after a reboot.
I do not use any sort of connection manager such as: NetworkManager, netctl, connman, etc.. I am only using dhcpcd via systemd.
The command I've always used to create the service is:
# systemctl enable [email protected]
# systemctl start [email protected]
I've found some topics related to the issue from 2-3 years back, but they don't seem to be the exact same case from what I can tell.
Here is the output of systemctl --type=service --all: http://i.imgur.com/hqBZBoP.png
Here is the output of ip link show when the service is running:
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: enp4s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether **:**:**:**:**:** brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
Does anything seem off in my service list? This issue is really nagging at me, and I don't know enough about systemd or networking to isolate it.
Last edited by BlueYoshi (2015-05-17 22:50:51)

Answer 1

jasonwryan wrote:
What is in the journal after it fails to start?
Not a Sysadmin issue, moving to NC...
Just checked, and it looks like it's starting services in a strange order. "PIA" is my service to start my VPN using the https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/priv … access-vpn package. I would think dhcpcd should be starting first?
journalctl: https://bpaste.net/raw/28fe88297a78
pia.service (if relevant):
[Unit]
Description=PIA
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/pia
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target