On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 02:23:45PM -0700, Vít Šesták wrote:
> Boot-time race condition sounds plausibly:
> 
> * It could explain not having this issue on my old laptop (SSD+HDD mix – 
> Debian's root.img stored on SSD, volatile.img stored on HDD) and having the 
> issue on the new one (SSD only), despite having almost the same config. (But 
> I've performed a clean install, so I can't exclude other influences.)
> * The VM it works with has somewhat larger /rw/config/rc.local. It performs 
> various tasks (installing some VM-specific software, adding a new trusted CA, 
> enabling and starting few services etc.), none of them is directly related to 
> environment variables. So, maybe either some load or delay in rc.local causes 
> the race condition to be won.
> 
> Regards,
> Vít Šesták 'v6ak'

It does sound plausible. But how is it that a vanilla template on SSD
doesnt show the problem? If this were the case I would have thought there would 
be
many reports.

If you put a long delay in to rc.local in one of the problematic qubes
does that solve the problem?

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