[systemd-devel] [systemd-commits] units/basic.target units/poweroff.target units/reboot.target

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 03:22:09AM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Wed, 05.11.14 17:46, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbyszek at kemper.freedesktop.org) wrote:
> 
> Ahum.
> 
> This needs more discussion.
> > 
> >     units: disable job timeouts
> >     
> >     For boot, we might kill fsck in the middle, with likely catastrophic
> >     consequences.
> 
> This I can agree with for now. However, we really should revisit this.
Yeah, that was supposed to be temporary, until we figure things out.

> >     On shutdown there might be other jobs, like downloading of updates for
> >     installation, and other custom jobs. It seems better to schedule an
> >     individual timeout on each one separately, when it is known what
> >     timeout is useful.
> 
> However, this one appears bogus to me. Is there any such software
> around that really does this? And if so, this really appears weird to
> me to support. Delaying shutdown for more than 30min is just wrong.
Isn't this what the various "download updates and reboot" gnome-y
things are doing?

Zbyszek