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Chef configuration management repo for configuring & maintaining the OpenStreetMap servers.
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systemd-networkd-wait-online waiting for timeout in dokken #663

Closed Firefishy closed 7 months ago

Firefishy commented 7 months ago

This lets systemd-networkd think it is managing the networking in podman / docker and ensures that systemd-networkd-wait-online does not wait for timeout on systemd services which rely on networking.

tomhughes commented 7 months ago

Are we deliberately enabling wait-online or is something else enabling it? It's not normally needed...

Firefishy commented 7 months ago

Are we deliberately enabling wait-online or is something else enabling it? It's not normally needed...

We don't deliberately enable it, it is part of the dependency for some systemd services. Any service which depends on systemd-networkd will trigger systemd-networkd-wait-online. eg: systemd-resolved triggers it, but likely others too.

Firefishy commented 7 months ago

This shaves for around 90 seconds per test that is using networking: apache2, exim, etc.

tomhughes commented 7 months ago

We don't deliberately enable it, it is part of the dependency for some systemd services. Any service which depends on systemd-networkd will trigger systemd-networkd-wait-online. eg: systemd-resolved triggers it, but likely others too.

No that's not how it works... There's a discussion at https://systemd.io/NETWORK_ONLINE/ but the important thing is that if a unit is configured to order itself after network-online.target then you will need a service like systemd-networkd-wait-online.service that can trigger it but the general recommendation is to write services so that don't need the network to be online (partly because nobody can agree what that means) and just order after network.target instead so I was interested in what was waiting on network-online.target which should itself be the only thing waiting on the networkd service.