[Mageia-dev] Systemd improvement

[Olivier Thauvin]

* Colin Guthrie (mageia at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Olivier Thauvin at 24/07/12 10:02 did gyre and gimble:
> > I have some minor issues with systemd so I report it in case some
> > improvment could be done:
> > 
> > 1) The timeout is very long when the system failed to ask the passphrase
> > for encrypted partition, os it is very long to reach any console (this
> > happend only when there is a problem)
> > 
> > 2) When everything work fine, the timeout occur if the passphrase for
> > encrypted partition is not enter early enough: I power up my laptop, do
> > something else, come back and it report the boot has failed, surprising!
> 
> So it's both too long and too short :)
> 
> I'm not sure how to deal with this, but I would suggest that we need to
> do something a bit more creative to deal with your particular use case.
> 
> For yourself, it's not a "critical" filesystem - e.g. it's not /usr or
> similar, but /home.

No you misunderstood, if the system succeed to launch
'/usr/bin/ask-the-passphrase' or whatever its name is, it must wait an
answer for ever and not continue booting and finally claim "hey
surprising, I failed to boot w/o the passphrase".
The firest time it happend I really thought my system was broken.

However, if it cannot launch '/usr/bin/ask-the-passphrase' it is sure
booting will failed as it cannot get the passphrase, no need to wait an
impossible user input.
Again, the case I just talk about happend only in case of bug and must
not happend on stable distro.

> > 3) the boot process hang/stop/wait if my wireless card is down (using
> > the hardware switch on the side of my laptop). This step need just one
> > second when the card is on, even it does not connect to any network.
> 
> If you have any NFS (or other network mounts) mounts that are NOT marked
> with nofail, then we consider them to be "critical" filesystems. If
> these filesystems are NOT needed for boot, then just mark them as
> "nofail" and they will still be mounted but your DM/logins will not be
> delayed while waiting for the network.


I don't have nfs in my fstab but maybe this is triggered by another
service.
But I don't see the point of waiting the card to be on, especially when
the card is on it don't connect to any network and don't wait this
happend.

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Olivier Thauvin
CNRS  -  LATMOS
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