[systemd-devel] v19: plymouth-quit-wait waits forever/no getty

[Andrey Borzenkov]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1) plymouth-quit is not ever started. I do not understand why - it is
> queued, and it should be started after rc-local.service is finished
> and it is not. Log attached.
>

Forget this. I had plymouth-quit with local modification in this VM.
Sorry for the noise.

The rest is still valid though :)

> 2) getty's now are ordered after plymouth-quit-wait, so they are never
> started until plymouth --wait finishes. But it never finishes because
> plymouth-quit is never run. Unfortunately, TimeoutSec is not applied
> to oneshot units so it just sits there forever. Patch attached. After
> booting with it I see that plymouth-quit is actually run but apprently
> *after* plymouthquit-wait which has failed.
>
> [root at localhost ~]# systemctl status plymouth-quit.service
> plymouth-quit.service - Terminate Plymouth Boot Screen
>          Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/plymouth-quit.service)
>          Active: inactive (dead) since Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:16:32
> -0500; 2min 41s ago
>         Process: 1448 ExecStart=/bin/plymouth quit (code=exited,
> status=0/SUCCESS)
>          CGroup: name=systemd:/system/plymouth-quit.service
> [root at localhost ~]# systemctl status plymouth-quit-wait.service
> plymouth-quit-wait.service - Wait for Plymouth Boot Screen to Quit
>          Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/plymouth-quit-wait.service)
>          Active: failed since Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:16:31 -0500; 2min 44s ago
>        Main PID: 917
>          CGroup: name=systemd:/system/plymouth-quit-wait.service
>
> Offhand: it would be *really* nice to have here explanation *why*
> service failed. You cannot expect people searching for this in logs
> every time, really.
>
> systemd[1]: plymouth-quit-wait.service operation timed out. Terminating.
>