[systemd-devel] Crash instead of emergency mode when mount failure

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fr, 18.01.19 12:00, Yang Lyu (yang.lyu at axis.com) wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> I have two questions about entering emergency mode when mount target fails.
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> If local-fs.target fails in booting stage, it will come into
> emergency mode and wait for user interaction. In this failure case,
> is it better to introduce a crash generate core dump and reboot
> automatically?

A coredump of what precisely?

If you want to reboot automatically if some unit fails or can't be
reached within some time use FailureAction=reboot or
JobTimeoutAction=reboot.

In case of local-fs.target using JobTimeoutAction=reboot sounds like a
good solution.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat