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Disabling 'A start job is running for wait for network to be configured.'

2025-03-22

Raspberry Pi 4 running Ubuntu Server 22.04.5 LTS displays a 'A start job is running for wait for network to be configured.' message when booting up. This can take up to 3 minutes slowing down other tasks.

To stop this behaviour, use

$ systemctl disable systemd-networkd-wait-online.service

to disable the wait-online service to prevent the system from waiting on a network connection, and use

$ systemctl mask systemd-networkd-wait-online.service

to prevent the service from starting if requested by another service (the service is symlinked to /dev/null).

Now your bootup should be almost instant.