On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 2:03 PM Anton Aylward <opensuse@antonaylward.com> wrote:
I need them to not cause anything to 'freeze' when they are not available. For whatever reason.
Yes, you are facing a mandatory "Don't do A until B completes" situation. Something that systemd can work around or address with system start-up, but you are dealing with KDE startup.
Exactly. In the fstab entry, I use _netdev, so systemd (or whoever) waits for the network to be up before attempting these mounts. This works fine. As long as I am not in KDE, the automount and all is working fantastic. We have another fly-in-the-ointment: We use a GPS+PPS+chrony to maintain Stratum 1 time on the Linux machine. It works great in a situation where the computers are turned on/off (a measurement vehicle on the road). We would like the Windows computers to sync time with the Linux host. So we have installed an NTP client on these systems. For this to work, the Linux system should have syncd time before the Windows computers start (or at least before the NTP client starts). Otherwise NTP can take a very long time for the Windows computers to have the correct time. (We have a NTP loopback so we can tell how the client differs from the NTP server.) The user can see that the Linux computer has the GPS time sync via a red/green ICON we maintain in the KDE status bar. Which you don't see until you log in with KDE. And if the Windows computers are not on yet, the KDE desktop will not behave. So it is hard to see when the Linux time is in sync so you can turn on the Windows computers. The only reason we have these Windows computers is that we have a couple of transducers that we have no choice but to use, and their access is Windows only. Otherwise we would be using our preferred diskless openSUSE setup that boots KIWI-generated images over the network. No need to shut them down as they start fresh each time. All changes are to RAM. -- Roger Oberholtzer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org