Startup Debian 9 fails with: `Failed to start Raise network interfaces` after motherboard replacement

Question

I have the same symptoms as here but slightly different configuration. My Debian server is standing in a Datacenter so I have no local access but only remote access.

Since the motherboard was replaced, I cannot access my server in any way unless I get into rescue mode. Here I can mount the disk drives and examine the files.

So, the boot.log shows me

...
[FAILED] Failed to start Raise network interfaces.
See 'systemctl status networking.service' for details.
...

I'm not sure what is the problem and how to actually find the root cause of the problem, so here I post some config files. These should be the same as before the motherboard replacement, as I did not change them

/etc/network/interfaces

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
#
# device: eth0

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
    address  vvv.www.xxx.zzz
    netmask  255.255.255.224
    gateway  vvv.www.xxx.1

iface eth0 inet6 static
    address  xxxx:xxx:xxx:xxxx::x
    netmask  128
    gateway  xxxx::1
    up sysctl -p

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
    address  10.10.10.2
    netmask  255.255.255.0
    bridge_ports eth0
    bridge_stp off
    bridge_fd 0

    post-up echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
    post-up iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s '10.10.10.0/24' -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
    post-down iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -s '10.10.10.0/24' -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE

/etc/default/networking

# Configuration for networking init script being run during
# the boot sequence

# Set to 'no' to skip interfaces configuration on boot
#CONFIGURE_INTERFACES=yes

# Don't configure these interfaces. Shell wildcards supported/
#EXCLUDE_INTERFACES=

# Set to 'yes' to enable additional verbosity
#VERBOSE=no

/etc/systemd/system/network-online.target.wants/networking.service

Any clue where to start to look at?

[Unit]
Description=Raise network interfaces
Documentation=man:interfaces(5)
DefaultDependencies=no
Wants=network.target
After=local-fs.target network-pre.target apparmor.service systemd-sysctl.service systemd-modules-load.service
Before=network.target shutdown.target network-online.target
Conflicts=shutdown.target

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
WantedBy=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/networking
ExecStartPre=-/bin/sh -c '[ "$CONFIGURE_INTERFACES" != "no" ] && [ -n "$(ifquery --read-environment --list --exclude=lo)" ] && udevadm settle'
ExecStart=/sbin/ifup -a --read-environment
ExecStop=/sbin/ifdown -a --read-environment --exclude=lo
RemainAfterExit=true
TimeoutStartSec=5min

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Update 1

root@chroot > ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet xxx.xx.xx.xx/xx brd xx.xx.xx.xx scope global eth0
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 xxxx:xxxx:xxx:xxxx::x/64 scope global 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx/64 scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

# This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules
# program, run by the persistent-net-generator.rules rules file.
#
# You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on a single
# line, and change only the value of the NAME= key.

# PCI device 0x8086:0x1502 (e1000e)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="4c:72:b9:98:12:ab", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"

Solution

Delete /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules or modify it to match your new ethernet interface, which is named eth1 now.

Comments

[Siva]

have you checked this ...askubuntu.com/questions/824376/…

[papanito]

Thanks @Ipor Sircer, this was it. I had some wrong understanding but after reading this it helped me understand better.