Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (955 mails)

[Ken Schneider - openSUSE <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/14/2011 12:04 PM, Larry Finger pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For some time, I have had a problem that booting with systemd enabled
> never completed. I had not had a chance to debug that issue until today,
> when I was forced to do it. After a 'zypper up' on October 13, I was no
> longer able to select SystemV using either "init=/sbin/init" in the GRUB
> options line, nor with F5. GRUB seems to do the right thing but the
> console log indicates that systemd is running.
>
>  From a Fedora article on debugging systemd, I discovered the boot
> commands to enable a log level of "debug". From that, I could see that
> the NFS mounts were failing.
>
> The problem is as follows: My network connection uses wireless with
> NetworkManager and the KDE plasmoid applet, thus no connection is made
> until a user has logged in. However, systemd will not proceed until the
> NFS volumes are mounted, and there is an impasse. I allowed the system
> to sit for nearly 2 hours, and it never finished booting.
>
> The patch to /etc/init.d/nfs shown below is a workaround. It places the
> NFS mount in the background so that it is completed when the network is
> up, but booting can continue.
>
> Index: etc/init.d/nfs
> ===================================================================
> --- etc.orig/init.d/nfs
> +++ etc/init.d/nfs
> @@ -244,7 +244,8 @@ case "$1-$nfs" in
> # of them. So always 'settle' if there is any mounting to do.
> echo -n "Mounting network file systems ..."
> udevadm settle
> - mount -at nfs,nfs4 || rc_failed 1
> + sleep 2 && mount -at nfs,nfs4 &
> + sleep 2
> rc_status -v
> fi
> #
>
> My change might not work when some of the system's files are contained
> on NFS volumes. I have no way to test, but the patch does make my system
> usable again.
>
> Larry

Isn't this a great way to run networking? You can't login to an nfs 
mounted home volume until networking is up and running, and networking 
won't come up until to login. Anyone see a catch 22 here?

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Ken Schneider
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