Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH 2/2] systemd: Relax dependencies of services

[Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>]

On 03/03/2015 03:12 PM, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek [2015-03-03 19:08 +0100]:
>> Are you sure that all of those nfs daemons do not require
>> sockets.target and other stuff provided by basic.target to be ready?
> 
> The corresponding upstart jobs trigger on virtual file systems (/sys,
> etc.) and rpcbind, and we've used them for years. Also, NFS does not
> yet use socket activation, or talks to other services on sockets
> (except for rpcbind), so we don't need sockets.target either.  The
> other dependencies (some network.target, some nss-lookup.target, etc.)
> are already specified explicitly. So I'm quite sure.
You are correct. rpcbind is the only service we have that uses socket
activation, which I don't think works very well... 

Just last week I notice if you reboot a vm and the first command 
you type is rpcinfo -p. That command will time out trying to talk
with rpcbind. After the timeout everything works fine... 

I thought I opened a bz but I can't seem to find it.

steved.

> 
> That said, there's of course always a nonzero chance that this breaks
> in a case which I haven't tested. In particular, I didn't test
> kerberos/gssd, I'd appreciate if someone who has a real-world setup
> with that could give this a spin.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Martin
>