Network manager requires restart upon booting

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Hi,

After getting comfortable with Fedora Silverblue on my laptop, I’ve just installed it on my desktop.

I’ve rebooted probably 10 times since installing and around 50% of the times I’ve rebooted network manager was not running, so I had to sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager before my network would come up. My desktop uses Ethernet and WiFi is disabled.

How can I understand what’s going on here and rectify?

Thanks

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Thanks, here’s what I see:

$ systemctl --no-pager status NetworkManager.service
○ NetworkManager.service - Network Manager
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d
             └─10-timeout-abort.conf
     Active: inactive (dead)
       Docs: man:NetworkManager(8)

$ journalctl --no-pager -b -u NetworkManager.service
Journal file /var/log/journal/045b8b975bb74c2da33f6171f43cf816/user-1000@00063928392e6522-4ec30d2dd43ac8e2.journal~ is truncated, ignoring file.
-- No entries --
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I tried the journalctl thing again and this time it gave me output that suggested a circular dependency. I noticed it referred to an automount I had set up, so went looking into that and pretty sure I screwed it up by including:

Requires=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

inside my .automount file. I tried removing those lines and have restarted several times now without issue :crossed_fingers: