[systemd-devel] Allow stop jobs to be killed during shutdown

[Andrey Borzenkov]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:09 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
> Am 24.01.2014 20:01, schrieb Andrey Borzenkov:
>> В Fri, 24 Jan 2014 19:44:08 +0100
>> Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek at in.waw.pl> пишет:
>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 07:26:48PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>>> 2014/1/24 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>:
>>>>> On Fri, 24.01.14 18:18, Michael Biebl (mbiebl at gmail.com) wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Making the shutdown more verbose in such a situation would imho be a
>>>>>> good idea, showing a countdown or something like that with a note for
>>>>>> which service systemd is currently waiting to be shutdown.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I completely agree with Tom here: In situations where on shutdown (or
>>>>>> boot for that matter) the system blocks for longer then 30-60 secs and
>>>>>> no feedback at all most people will simply assume the system got stuck
>>>>>> and do power-reset.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yupp, Michal had the same idea, that's why there is the eye-of-sauron
>>>>> animation in place...
>>>>
>>>> Ah, good to know. That's a start.
>>>> I guess my systemd version (v204) is simply too old then?
>>>>
>>>> Is this animation shown irregardless of whether one has booted with
>>>> "quiet" or not?
>>> With quiet the [OK] lines are not shown, so no, it only works
>>> without quiet.
>>
>> Is it possible to automatically switch to more verbose mode as soon as
>> any problem is seen (like service timeout)?
>
> too late,

May be I was not clear. There is some timeout after which "running
stars" animation starts. Apparently it is hard-coded and not
configurable. It would be useful if this timeout also triggered switch
to verbose mode.

> after the timeout is reached it continues
> the users problem is the silent waiting *before* the timeout
>
>
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