-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2016-08-19 06:18, johnyju...@sigaint.org wrote: >>> This problem persists in 3.2rc2. >>> >>> (And I get 0 errors on the same USB drive under Tails. When I can >>> find the SATA power connector around here somewhere, I'll try moving >>> the drive direct onto the SATA bus.) >> >> I think the problem *may* be that systemd has a default 90 second >> timeout on jobs, including unmounting root. >> >> On an external USB drive, due to slower transfer times, the shutdown >> process of all the VM's, killing processes, flushing buffers, etc., >> happens to take long enough that a clean unmount of the drive doesn't >> get a chance to occur, leaned to a corrupted filesystem. > > I am very new to systemd, but I believe the cause of my corruption is that > there may be a typo bug in one of the directives for systemd's > umount.target. > > "systemctl show umount.target" reveals: > >> JobTimeoutUSec=0 > > "man systemd.directives" and "man system.unit" do not show any such > directive; however, they do show "JobTimeoutSec" which I believe was likely > the intended directive, and which would set no limit on waiting for that > shutdown filesystem unmount, and I believe would prevent the corruption I > was seeing. > > A zgrep of all the man pages shows no indication of JobTimeoutUSec being a > legit property. > > Cheers. > > JJ >
Thanks for the report! Updated: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2245#issuecomment-241107927 - -- Andrew David Wong (Axon) Community Manager, Qubes OS https://www.qubes-os.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJXt1kbAAoJENtN07w5UDAwTdkP/jcUco65Mh1pBLqCXhFBfZ9s s57imQlP8jfUfE+zXAZ8PeYYA07cw31QXx+K3jcKvDyFOo3xfMvL+t9XH0WkM2B0 FUpFLn+YO3MEClLQM4ZC3hTZz7fl0npuhJBEPkOiGXMgbkycxP2rrqNTi9M7yoYi Zg4/sAzi7PyLC8/gaUJ6c5LdsZ3KB2k8QQWRpgFbEBdYQ7b0kHF7hyjZqHo6Rnrd 26b8NTwKaCJR07tf2/BVuMzgskQpkzugDE083nVpyqKqBo9c6lZANETavd7JiVLD O6Yt7NVM1ZHWKU8dPuEvBQ8yleEOmXRPDqrs9sXS2R2AdPpnmUOxYU8Tyi6MBTYi +acp9A4gyduHbufhiDOv6Mh4rYpaItRQixutk6Q89UzgsjarR9Fj9IH/JqR4KmAK mUdcok1rrzpcMGOOMH34kMJ/IkgxlWe7LNypn+kDattwULeoPYp+MMkRI2h/OJRR bPdsXU5RN1Yc1x2hiGYdGBXn2QXT28I06AHq2fvLCXpIo90ia7lBr5u7DzzEVKp/ YkJgNp7QVR7rjE1WbmXWx43K8gUT5+0yYE7hPP72GSmQqZz3j5BlbheVrzzruEbz EnsIfiwbl2Xj9wZNnSOuOnxNHSDaPtFRR+pRwBooIBsK8bP3vj4wajdg8mby8nI9 kh3DJ51P4tpeHGltp9LT =Idxb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/10c08c9c-a1ac-4a28-295a-22cdd0971b7a%40qubes-os.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
