[systemd-devel] [External] Re: How to set the timeout of emergency mode

[Itxaka Serrano Garcia]

In that case, why not use the timeout stuff from the services?

You could probably override the service to set a timeout for its running
with
[Unit]
JobRunningTimeoutSec=300
JobTimeoutAction=reboot-force

So after starting you get up to 5 minutes of it running and then it should
reboot. Probably the JobTimeoutAction is not needed as I'm sure it will
reboot if the emergency.service fails, but better safe than sorry :)

That gives you the best of both worlds. You get some time to debug and if
not it will auto reboot after a bit and maybe fix itself :D

On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 2:21 AM Mark Zhang (NSB) <mark.zhang at nokia-sbell.com>
wrote:

> Hello Itxaka,
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> Thanks for the suggestion.
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> If we override with reboot, that may impact the ability of debug in case
> encountered real issue.
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> Thanks,
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> Mark
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> *From:* Itxaka Serrano Garcia <itxaka.garcia at spectrocloud.com>
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> Maybe you could override the emergency.service to reboot automatically?
> Either on the ExecStartPost or even earlier if you dont want to even show
> the logging, on ExecStartPre?
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> I think that could work.
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> On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 5:19 AM Mark Zhang (NSB) <
> mark.zhang at nokia-sbell.com> wrote:
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> Hello Experts,
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> Consult one question about how to set the timeout of emergency mode?
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> Scenario:
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> We have encountered one problem of Openstack host, and the host was up at
> the end, and all things are good from host level after that.
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> But the VM stuck in the emergency mode forever. If we input ctrl+D, the VM
> could reboot normally again.
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> So we would like to consult, if any method could avoid to stuck in the
> emergency mode forever? Be better, there is some timeout setting for
> emergency mode. Then the VM could auto-recover by itself for such scenario.
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> Thanks,
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> Mark
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