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

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 27.01.14 13:42, Tom Gundersen (teg at jklm.no) wrote:

> > So maybe something like this: In addition to the boolean values for
> > systemd.show_status= on the kernel cmdline (or ShowStatus= in
> > system.conf), we'd add a third value called "auto". If that is set
> > we'd boot up without any status output, until either at least one
> > service failed, or at least one job reaches its timeout half-way.
> 
> For people like me who has an attention span of about five seconds,
> half-way to the timeout is still a really long time to just sit there.
> Maybe just use the same timeout as the eye-of-cylon thingie?

Yeah, maybe. Figuring out good timeouts its probably something one
should do when actually playing around with it and checking how things
"feel" if this is implemented...

> > When
> > that point is reached we'c continue the entire rest of the boot with
> > status output enabled.
> 
> Hm, maybe only do this if something actually failed/reached the
> timeout, and not if we just show the eye-of-cylon for a while and then
> continue normally?

Hmm, possibly, yeah, but we probably should explain that
too... i.e. "Turning off boot-time status output again, since timeout is
resolved" or so... But maybe this ultimately gets too confusing...

Note that this all is just an issue on non-Plymouth systems. If you use
Plymouth then things are much nicer anyway, since the output is always
generated, just not visible on screen until the user hits Esc.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat