On Thu, 8 Sep 2011, Leo Milano wrote: > Scott, is this how things are intended to work? My current understanding > is: > > > * "pre-start exec sleep N" means "wait up to N seconds for the > preconditions to be satisfied". In this case, these are a network up and > a fs up. I thought it meant "Wait at least N seconds", but I guess I was > wrong.
No. 'pre-start exec sleep N' means that it will sleep for N in the pre-start. And then nothing happens anywhere else (no 'start'). So basically all this job does is sleep for 120 seconds. Then, rc.sysinit starts on : start on (filesystem and static-network-up) or started failsafe So, it will start on the filesystem being available (which will happen very early) and the network is up, *or* 120 seconds have passed since 'failsafe' started. > * The current change makes the system to wait up to 120 seconds if the > network is not brought up according to /etc/network/interfaces > > I think the latter is something that is not unlikely to happen for > people who have been using different network managers and upgrading to > new releases. What network manager would have said to have that entry in /etc/network/interfaces ? Even in the old behavior, having that entry would stop NetworkManager from working for 'eth0'. > > Why would we do this? Isn't it better to proceed with the boot up even > if the network is not fully up? Why is a network fully up a requirement > to run rc-sysinit.conf? Because things in svsvinit often expect (reasonably) to have a network. Prior to there being upstart, the jobs there would have expected network, and were sane in that expectation. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/839595 Title: failsafe.conf's 30 second time out is too low To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/839595/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
