[Mageia-dev] irqbalance (was: Re: Fwd: Re: M3 won't complete boot after update)

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 27/09/12 17:05 did gyre and gimble:
> 'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 27/09/12 16:09 did gyre and gimble:
>> Colin Guthrie skrev 27.9.2012 15:31:
>>> 'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 27/09/12 11:02 did gyre and gimble:
>>>>
>>>> While the new reboot is completing, and while I remember - irqbalance
>>>> daemon always fails to start.  I've assumed it's not relevant?
>>>
>>> I noticed this yesterday too. It has a very incomplete systemd unit for
>>> some reason. Will have to investigate who added that without checking it.
>>>
>>
>> I did ... for Mga2 the service file shipped in irqbalance-1.0.3 tarball
>> works, but for the updated 1.0.4 in Cauldron upstream did this:
>>
>> --- irqbalance-1.0.3/misc/irqbalance.service
>> +++ irqbalance-1.0.4/misc/irqbalance.service
>> @@ -3,9 +3,8 @@ Description=irqbalance daemon
>>  After=syslog.target
>>
>>  [Service]
>> -EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/irqbalance
>> -Type=forking
>> -ExecStart=/usr/sbin/irqbalance $ONESHOT
>> +EnvironmentFile=/path/to/irqbalance.env
>> +ExecStart=/usr/sbin/irqbalance --foreground $IRQBALANCE_ARGS
> 
> Well, I'm glad upstream have made their unit much better :p

Interestingly with the updated version, irqbalance --foreground seems to
exit after about 10s which isn't very useful.

Col

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