Re: [systemd-devel] repart.d: Root partition not grown on Ubuntu 22.04 with *systemd* 249.11-0ubuntu3.12

2024-05-07 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Nils, Thank you for the fast answer. Am 06.05.24 um 02:00 schrieb Nils Kattenbeck: This was not properly implemented until the current version: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/30030 Indeed, it seems to work with Ubuntu 24.04 (noble numbat) with *systemd* 255.4-1ubuntu8. ```

[systemd-devel] repart.d: Root partition not grown

2024-05-05 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, On Ubuntu 22.04 with *systemd-repart* 249.11-0ubuntu3.12, the root partition in a qcow2 image, resized with qemu-img resize ubuntu-jammy.qcow2 +100G is not grown: $ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS sr0 11:01 1024M 0 rom

Re: [systemd-devel] mkosi config to build minimal Ubuntu 22.04 VM image?

2024-04-03 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Daan, Thank you very much for your reply. Am 04.03.24 um 15:52 schrieb Daan De Meyer: Please see the config included in the mkosi repository itself: https://github.com/systemd/mkosi/blob/main/mkosi.conf and https://github.com/systemd/mkosi/tree/main/mkosi.conf.d. This should help you

[systemd-devel] mkosi config to build minimal Ubuntu 22.04 VM image?

2024-02-29 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd and mkosi folks, I would like to create a minimal Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy) virtual machine image for QEMU/KVM with VirtIO. Inside the VM only systemd, sshd, a shell and curl or Wget should be installed. (From this base, one goal is then to install BigBlueButton for example.) I found

Re: [RFC] initoverlayfs - a scalable initial filesystem

2023-12-12 Thread Paul Menzel
[Sorry for the spam to the people in Cc. Now the real address.] Dear Luca, Am 11.12.23 um 22:45 schrieb Luca Boccassi: > On Mon, 11 Dec 2023 at 21:20, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 08:58:58PM +, Luca Boccassi wrote: >>> On Mon, 11 Dec 2023 at 20:43, Demi Marie

[systemd-devel] All Systems Go! 2023 (13/14. 09. 23): Call for Proposals ends July 7th

2023-06-30 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, I didn’t see an announcement for ASG2023 on the list, so for those, like me, who haven’t seen this yet [1]: All Systems Go! 2023 Call for Proposals The Call for Participation (CFP) for All Systems Go! 2023 is now open! Please submit your proposals for consideration.

Re: [systemd-devel] systemd enables custom service units on firstboot

2023-04-29 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Martin, Am 29.04.23 um 16:12 schrieb Martin Petzold: we are building our OS with debootstrap (Debian bullseye). Our image shall be flashed on embedded devices. In order to get a unique machine-id we removed '/etc/machine-id' as instructed in [1] and also removed

Re: [systemd-devel] Plot time data anomalies

2023-01-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Joshua, Am 11.01.23 um 12:53 schrieb Joshua Zivkovic: […] I'm interested in whether this means that the times for unit initialisation, presented by `plot`, aren't entirely accurate and if there is anything that can be done about this. I believe, systemd-bootchart is recommended to

Re: [systemd-devel] kexec reboot fails and reboots in normal cold boot way

2022-06-18 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Prashantkumar, Am 14.06.22 um 10:39 schrieb Prashantkumar dhotre: In systemd 243.2+ version, intermittently sometimes I see that 'systemctl kexec' does not result in kexec reboot but results in reguler cold boot reboot The upstream list only gives support for the last two systemd

Re: [systemd-devel] issues with systemd-cryptsetup@.service after in 251-rc3

2022-05-19 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Dusty, Am 19.05.22 um 05:32 schrieb Dusty Mabe: I'm requesting help to try to find a problematic commit between v251-rc2..v251-rc3. We have a test in Fedora CoreOS [1] that tests luks and this test started failing in our rawhide stream with the introduction of 251-rc3. Reverting back to

Re: [systemd-devel] trivial net connection logs - ?

2022-04-11 Thread Paul Menzel
[Sorry for this resent to your personal address.] Dear L, Am 11.04.22 um 09:28 schrieb lejeczek: I must have gone blind cause can't find it in man page and to my surprise internet search does not help or my quering is broken. 'systemctl' can show status for specific NM connection - what was

Re: [systemd-devel] Run "ipmitool power cycle" after lib/systemd/system-shutdown scripts

2022-02-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Adam, First, just a note (for myself), `ipmitool power` is a shortcut for `ipmitool chassis power`. Am 11.02.22 um 10:54 schrieb Adam Nielsen: After flashing the firmware of some pcie card I need to power cycle the server to finish the flashing process. Can you please tell us the

Re: [systemd-devel] Run "ipmitool power cycle" after lib/systemd/system-shutdown scripts

2022-02-11 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Etienne, Am 09.02.22 um 22:05 schrieb Etienne Champetier: After flashing the firmware of some pcie card I need to power cycle the server to finish the flashing process. Can you please tell us the PCIe device, where a normal system reboot is not enough to reset it, so I can avoid

Re: [systemd-devel] Converting xinetd files

2022-02-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Wol, Am 11.02.22 um 01:57 schrieb Wol: I've found the pid0 blog, and had no real trouble (I think, I haven't tested it yet :-) converting an xinetd setup. Please always provide the URL, if you refer to some resource. But the documentation (man systemd.service) didn't tell me how to

Re: [systemd-devel] Systemd setup DSA interfaces in port mode and bond them together?

2021-11-19 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Brian, Am 19.11.21 um 00:34 schrieb Brian Hutchinson: On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 5:48 PM Alvin Šipraga wrote: On 11/18/21 23:25, Brian Hutchinson wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 4:20 PM Alvin Šipraga wrote: On 11/18/21 01:20, Brian Hutchinson wrote: […] I don't think that

Re: [systemd-devel] Running systemd unprivileged in Docker container

2021-06-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Johannes, Am 12.06.21 um 01:55 schrieb Johannes Ernst: I can run a full Arch system (with systemd as PID 1) in a Docker container in Docker privileged mode: sudo docker run -i -t --privileged archlinux /usr/lib/systemd/systemd but privileged mode is, well, a bit privileged. I

Re: [systemd-devel] how to make the systemd init faster

2021-06-05 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Dino, Am 05.06.21 um 00:08 schrieb Dino Joseph Mycle: I am trying t improve my embedded system boot time which uses systemd. debugging understood that it spends lot time around ~1.3 second in my iMX6 board running @800MHz on initialization of the systemd plotting the graph using

Re: [systemd-devel] DHCP6 client failing when /etc is mounted as overlayfs

2021-06-02 Thread Paul Menzel
[Sorry for the duplicate.] Dear Alessandro, Am 01.06.21 um 23:32 schrieb Alessandro Tagliapietra: It seems that while DHCP6 doesn't return any error now and the DUID is the same after reboot and after network restart by our agent: DHCP6 Client DUID:

Re: [systemd-devel] Adding USB ID to hwdb/usb.ids

2021-06-02 Thread Paul Menzel
[Sorry for the duplicate.] Dear Greg, dear Mantas, dear Daniele, Am 02.06.21 um 07:37 schrieb Mantas Mikulėnas: On Wed, Jun 2, 2021, 08:04 Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 09:38:37PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Am Di., 1. Juni 2021 um 20:44 Uhr schrieb Greg KH <

[systemd-devel] systemd-networkd: How to configure network with environment variables?

2021-04-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, Due to historical reasons, in our environment we have a configuration file with the network device name and the to be assigned IP address: $ more /etc/local/mxhost.conf MX_NETDEV=net02 MX_IPADDR=141.14.18.X Then a custom service unit `network.service` [1]

Re: [systemd-devel] log_assert_failed_realm crash in systemd journal-file

2020-12-21 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Aditya, Am 21.12.20 um 04:30 schrieb Aditya Tayade: Could you please help with this. I think, you testing applying the patch or upgrading to a newer systemd version will give you the quickest results. Upstream systemd only support the last two releases. Kind regards, Paul

[systemd-devel] systemd-networkd and GNOME integration

2020-12-19 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, For several GNOME systems, systemd-networkd is an alternative to the NetworkManager. For example, desktop systems with a plugged in Ethernet cable, which do not use wireless devices. As systemd-networkd is often not packaged separately by distributions, it’s a viable

[systemd-devel] Timestamps in journal during suspend/resume

2020-12-01 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, Using Debian sid/unstable with systemd 246.5, suspend and resuming a Dell Precision 3540 the timestamps below can be seen. ``` Nov 28 19:58:47.516555 morley systemd[1]: Reached target Sleep. Nov 28 19:58:47.517585 morley systemd[1]: Starting Suspend... Nov 28

[systemd-devel] Fwd: [coreboot] Upcoming virtual OSFC 2020

2020-12-01 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, Some of you might be interested in firmware. The Open Source Firmware Conference 2020 [1] is going to start today. Kind regards, Paul [1]: https://osfc.io --- Begin Message --- Hello people, This is a last reminder on the upcoming OSFC 2020 (www.osfc.io) which will

Re: [systemd-devel] jio test results

2020-11-26 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Vito, Am 26.11.20 um 19:54 schrieb Vito Caputo: On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 12:28:16PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: […] Thank you. It builds fine on Debian Sid/unstable with GCC 10.2.0-19 (some warnings), and the results are attached. Any chance you could mail me the warnings? I see none

Re: [systemd-devel] Mounting / as writable without in `/etc/fstab`

2020-11-26 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Mantas, Thank you for your detailed reply. Am 26.11.20 um 09:12 schrieb Mantas Mikulėnas: On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 5:23 PM Paul Menzel wrote: Is an entry for / in `/etc/fstab` still needed, or is there a systemd way of doing it? That *is* the systemd way -- the fstab entry

Re: [systemd-devel] How to turn off the ntp time synchronization in default when power on

2020-11-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Frank, Am 24.11.20 um 16:35 schrieb 海阔天空: I need to turn off the ntp time synchronization in default when power on, how to do it? Should I stop to launch "systems-timesyncd.service" when power on? It would be appreciated if you could tell me what to do. Please read the manual

[systemd-devel] Mounting / as writable without in `/etc/fstab`

2020-11-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, Is an entry for / in `/etc/fstab` still needed, or is there a systemd way of doing it? Installing Debian bullseye/testing with the Debian Installer, it creates a GPT and `/etc/fstab`. $ systemd --version systemd 246 (246.6-2) +PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA

Re: [systemd-devel] Journald retaining logs for only 10 days

2020-11-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Nikolaus, Am 14.11.20 um 10:31 schrieb Nikolaus Rath: I just discovered that on one of my systems journald only retains log entries for about 10 days: # journalctl | head -1 -- Logs begin at Wed 2020-11-04 15:57:13 UTC, end at Sat 2020-11-14 09:28:19 UTC. -- I do not understand what

Re: [systemd-devel] workaround for systemd-networkd-wait-online boot fail/delay on systems with bridge for v234? (fix @ systemd/issues/2154 requires v>242)

2020-07-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear PGNet, Am 12.07.20 um 07:54 schrieb PGNet Dev: On 6/16/20 1:35 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Sa, 30.05.20 18:02, PGNet Dev (pgnet@gmail.com) wrote: IS there a backport of this^^ fix available for v234 that popped up in the meantime? If not, as is likely, is there a "safe"

Re: [systemd-devel] systemd-networkd packet loss Ubuntu 18.04 (systemd 237)

2020-07-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Luke, On 2020-07-08 13:10, Luke Alexander wrote: > I had a look through some of the issues against the systemd github repo but > could not find any matching - there were a couple which look promising but > don't completely resolve our issue. > > Our issue is that we have a k8s (1.18,

Re: [systemd-devel] Q: systemctl kill: "Invalid who argument 15862"

2020-05-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Ulrich, Am 06.05.20 um 11:21 schrieb Ulrich Windl: I have a question for systemd-228-150.82.1.x86_64 (of SLES12 SP4): While developing a script for logrotate, I tested this command with the following result: # systemctl kill -s HUP --kill-who=15862 iotwatch@LOC1.service Failed to kill

Re: [systemd-devel] Fwd: systemd for petitboot as linux payload (x230)

2020-04-20 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, Am 20.04.20 um 11:47 schrieb Lennart Poettering: On Mo, 20.04.20 10:52, Robin C (amisbie...@posteo.net) wrote: Hi everyone, I'm curruntly trying to build petitboot for my lenovo x230 (actualy runs coreboot + tianocore). I use this tutorial to build it:

Re: [systemd-devel] Ordering after udev applied rules to `/dev/dri/card0`

2020-04-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Lennart, Am 01.04.20 um 17:10 schrieb Lennart Poettering: On Mi, 01.04.20 14:23, Paul Menzel (pmenzel+systemd-de...@molgen.mpg.de) wrote: After=device should work. udev announces device after all rules have been processed. After= only orders, but this doesn't pull the device unit

Re: [systemd-devel] Ordering after udev applied rules to `/dev/dri/card0`

2020-04-01 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Andrei, dear Lennart, Thank you very much for your answers. Am 31.03.20 um 17:09 schrieb Lennart Poettering: On Do, 19.03.20 20:24, Andrei Borzenkov (arvidj...@gmail.com) wrote: 19.03.2020 19:47, Paul Menzel пишет: I am using Debian Sid/unstable with systemd 245.2 and Weston 8.0.0

[systemd-devel] Ordering after udev applied rules to `/dev/dri/card0`

2020-03-19 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, I am using Debian Sid/unstable with systemd 245.2 and Weston 8.0.0. I amtrying to start a graphical desktop as soon as possible. Currently, I use Weston, but unfortunately accessing `/dev/dri/card0` it gets a permission denied error. The Weston service unit is ordered

[systemd-devel] Best practices for starting unit only if network is online

2020-02-05 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, fwupd ships the service unit `fwupd-refresh.service` with the ordering below [1]. After=network.target network-online.target systemd-networkd.service NetworkManager.service connman.service I would have thought ordering after `network-online.target` would be

Re: [systemd-devel] Service fails to start with no log messages

2020-01-07 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Jeffrey, On 2020-01-07 03:17, Jeffrey Walton wrote: […] > There are absolutely 0 entires about my monitor service: > > $ journalctl -e | grep -i callboot | grep monitor > $ The switch `-e` implies that by default only 1000 lines are shown. -e, --pager-end

Re: [systemd-devel] How to apply for partition type GUID for Linux /boot?

2019-11-28 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Arseny, On 2019-11-28 15:10, Arseny Maslennikov wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 01:13:52PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: >> On Mi, 27.11.19 12:43, Paul Menzel (pmenzel+systemd-de...@molgen.mpg.de) >> wrote: >> >>> Dear systemd folks, >>> >>

Re: [systemd-devel] How to apply for partition type GUID for Linux /boot?

2019-11-27 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Lennart, On 2019-11-27 13:13, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mi, 27.11.19 12:43, Paul Menzel (pmenzel+systemd-de...@molgen.mpg.de) > wrote: >> A partition type GUID [1] for the partition to be mounted under `/boot` >> when started with Linux would be nice. For example

[systemd-devel] How to apply for partition type GUID for Linux /boot?

2019-11-27 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, A partition type GUID [1] for the partition to be mounted under `/boot` when started with Linux would be nice. For example, there is already one for FreeBSD /boot [2]. As you seem to have requested one for the freedesktop.org shared boot loader partition already, could you

[systemd-devel] Problems with DNS resolution in German Rail WiFi

2019-10-31 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, Since over half a year, I am having problems with the German Rail WIFI (Deutsche Bahn, WIFIonICE) [1]. I am only having problems with the WIFI in the train. The WIFI on the train stations (operated by Deutsche Telekom(?)) works fine. I am able to connect to the WIFI

[systemd-devel] How-to for systemd user timers instead of cron/crontab?

2019-10-17 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, I couldn’t find a simple documentation for “normal” users how to use systemd timers instead of cron/crontab? The Arch Wiki has a page [1], but I am afraid it’s still too complicated for our users. Kind regards, Paul [1]:

[systemd-devel] Reduce loading time (size) of init program (systemd)

2019-09-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, In his talk *Linux kernel fastboot on the way* at this years Linux Plumbers Conference [1][2], Feng Tang (CCed) has the notes below on the slide for userspace/systemd. > • Systemd is ~1.5MB - the loading time for emmc is 100ms> • Can we use a > small lightweight “init”

[systemd-devel] systemd-devel listed as support confuses users (was: connection failure)

2019-07-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, On 7/2/19 3:44 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 03:39:04PM +0200, ABDUL MAJITH wrote: >> I am trying to use the Docker in GNS3, when I try to launch it show the >> error as follows, >> >> -- The start-up result is done. >> Jul 02 15:21:55

[systemd-devel] Collect logs over serial

2019-01-31 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd/udev folks, Having a large pool of (different) systems, we hit Linux kernel panics several times in a year. To better debug those, we want to make use of the serial ports still present on today’s systems. Unfortunately, the serial ports on the back plane, we’d like to use, are

[systemd-devel] Run OpenVPN unprivileged as systemd user service

2018-11-01 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, Our users sometimes need to access the internal network of another organization, but unfortunately SSH access is blocked, and it’s only possible over OpenVPN. With that, they could use their browser and SSH to access the internal network. Due to security reasons, we do not

Re: [systemd-devel] Mailing List List-Id Header

2018-10-30 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Esben, On 10/30/18 16:17, Esben Stien wrote: > Is there supposed to be a List-Id in the headers of email that comes from > this mailing list? > > I don't see any. Any other headers you use? I see all the headers. For example, from your message (Ctrl + u in Thunderbird): ```

[systemd-devel] How to debug stop job running into time-out?

2018-10-24 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, With Debian Sid/unstable (systemd 239) and GDM 3.30.1, sometimes powering off the system, it takes two minutes and the message below is shown on the screen. > A stop job is running for User Manager for UID 1000 (1min 3s / 1 min 59s) What ways are there to debug this issue.

[systemd-devel] How to profile units with perf? (was: logind: How to process enumerate buttons in parallel?)

2018-07-18 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, On 07/16/18 11:26, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mo, 16.07.18 10:25, Paul Menzel wrote: […] >> Do you have suggestions how to do that with systemd-logind? > > People tend to use "perf" for things like this these days. Thank you, that’s what

Re: [systemd-devel] logind: How to process enumerate buttons in parallel?

2018-07-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Lennart, Thank you for your response. On 07/13/18 17:12, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Do, 12.07.18 16:51, Paul Menzel wrote: >> Trying to decrease the start-up time, I noticed that `systemd-logind` >> probes devices in serial(?) (instead of parall

Re: [systemd-devel] How to reduce time to between Linux’ `run_init_process()` and systemd banner?

2018-07-13 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, I forgot to attach the logs. Am 13.07.2018 um 20:20 schrieb Paul Menzel: Trying to decrease the boot time, I got rid of the initrd. Now, there is a noticeable delay between Linux `run_init_process()` and the first systemd message. I added an output line to the Linux

[systemd-devel] How to reduce time to between Linux’ `run_init_process()` and systemd banner?

2018-07-13 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, Trying to decrease the boot time, I got rid of the initrd. Now, there is a noticeable delay between Linux `run_init_process()` and the first systemd message. I added an output line to the Linux function. ``` static int run_init_process(const char *init_filename) {

[systemd-devel] logind: How to process enumerate buttons in parallel?

2018-07-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, Trying to decrease the start-up time, I noticed that `systemd-logind` probes devices in serial(?) (instead of parallel). From `manager_enumerate_buttons(Manager *m)` in `src/login/logind.c`: ``` udev_list_entry_foreach(item, first) {

Re: [systemd-devel] How to set `InitRDTimestampMonotonic` from console?

2018-07-04 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Dimitri, Am 04.07.2018 um 12:24 schrieb Dimitri John Ledkov: On 4 July 2018 at 10:22, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mi, 04.07.18 07:24, Paul Menzel (pmenzel+systemd-de...@molgen.mpg.de) wrote: Dear systemd folks, Debian uses a shell script as `/init` in initrd, and I like to extend

[systemd-devel] How to set `InitRDTimestampMonotonic` from console?

2018-07-03 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, Debian uses a shell script as `/init` in initrd, and I like to extend that, to set the time stamps for the initrd execution. `systemd-analyze` built from `src/analyze/analyze.c` uses D-Bus to get the time stamp to display that. ```

Re: [systemd-devel] Changed ordering of systemd-resolved.service

2018-04-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Dimitri, On 04/16/18 18:51, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: On 16 April 2018 at 14:25, Paul Menzel wrote: On 04/16/18 12:47, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: On 13 April 2018 at 16:40, Paul Menzel wrote: In commit 1f158013 (resolved.service: set DefaultDependencies=no) the ordering

Re: [systemd-devel] Changed ordering of systemd-resolved.service

2018-04-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Dimitri, Thank you for your quick response. On 04/16/18 12:47, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: On 13 April 2018 at 16:40, Paul Menzel wrote: In commit 1f158013 (resolved.service: set DefaultDependencies=no) the ordering of systemd-resolved.service was changed. (How do I find the merge

[systemd-devel] Changed ordering of systemd-resolved.service

2018-04-13 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Dimitri, dear systemd folks, In commit 1f158013 (resolved.service: set DefaultDependencies=no) the ordering of systemd-resolved.service was changed. (How do I find the merge request to find possible discussion? Also the commit message description is too specific in my opinion, as it

Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] Fix strerror_r segfault on non-glibc systems

2018-03-29 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Ioan-Adrian, Thank you for your patch (from the future `Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 14:41:30 +0300`). I believe systemd moved the development to GitHub [1] and only accepts merge/pull requests [1]. Please see our Contribution Guidelines for more information about filing GitHub Issues and

Re: [systemd-devel] How to debug why a unit is started when?

2018-03-19 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Colin, On 03/19/2018 07:31 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote: Paul Menzel wrote on 17/03/18 17:50: On 03/16/2018 05:04 PM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote: 16.03.2018 18:49, Paul Menzel пишет: I am trying to get the GDM login screen started earlier on a Dell XPS 13 9370 with Debian Sid/unstable

Re: [systemd-devel] How to debug why a unit is started when?

2018-03-17 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Tomasz, On 03/16/2018 04:56 PM, Tomasz Torcz ️ wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 04:49:28PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: I am trying to get the GDM login screen started earlier on a Dell XPS 13 9370 with Debian Sid/unstable system with systemd 238. Currently, after selecting the Linux

[systemd-devel] How to debug why a unit is started when?

2018-03-16 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, I am trying to get the GDM login screen started earlier on a Dell XPS 13 9370 with Debian Sid/unstable system with systemd 238. Currently, after selecting the Linux kernel in GRUB it’s only displayed after roughly eight to ten seconds while Linux takes around two seconds

Re: [systemd-devel] Hints for upgrading systemd on a running system

2018-02-20 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Lennart and others, Thank you for your prompt replies. Am 20.02.2018 um 23:12 schrieb Lennart Poettering: On Di, 20.02.18 20:00, Paul Menzel (pmenzel+systemd-de...@molgen.mpg.de) wrote: We finally are going to upgrade from a very old systemd version 27 from 2011 to the current

[systemd-devel] Hints for upgrading systemd on a running system

2018-02-20 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, We finally are going to upgrade from a very old systemd version 27 from 2011 to the current systemd v237. (Historical reasons.) Anyway, I already was told about `systemctl daemon-reexec`, and we got it working. After that, looking at the output of `systemctl`, there

Re: [systemd-devel] Best practices for full disk encryption with dm-crypt/LUKS

2018-02-19 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Andrei, Thank you for your reply. Am 20.02.2018 um 05:41 schrieb Andrei Borzenkov: 20.02.2018 01:16, Paul Menzel пишет: Having a system with UEFI, what is the state of the art to use full disk encryption? I read the article in the Arch Linux wiki [1], and it still using GRUB

[systemd-devel] Best practices for full disk encryption with dm-crypt/LUKS

2018-02-19 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, Having a system with UEFI, what is the state of the art to use full disk encryption? I read the article in the Arch Linux wiki [1], and it still using GRUB. There is an blog post from 2016 using systemd-boot [2]. If there was a way without LVM, I’d prefer that. Are

[systemd-devel] [RFH] How to analyze long load time of `systemd-timesyncd`?

2017-04-19 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, I am trying to figure out why `systemd-timesyncd` takes quite some time, that means over 100 ms, to start up on several systems [1]. This is also reproducible with systemd 232 from Debian Sid/unstable. After adding `log_info()` statements to the source code, as told in

[systemd-devel] Short way to show messages of executable and unit with `journalctl`

2017-04-14 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, Is there a shorter way than below to show all messages of an executable and a unit? ``` $ journalctl _COMM=sudo + _SYSTEMD_UNIT=NetworkManager.service ``` I would be happy about a command, that involves `-u` so that I don’t have to type the suffix `.service`. Thanks,

[systemd-devel] Strange output of `systemd-analyze critical-chain`

2016-11-15 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, I am using systemd 232-3 from Debian sid/unstable. ``` $ systemd --version systemd 232 +PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ -LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD +IDNar systemd folks, ``` On the underpowered

Re: [systemd-devel] Depending on services from a service unit template

2016-06-30 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Michael, dear Andrei, Thank you for replying. Am Montag, den 27.06.2016, 15:37 +0200 schrieb Michael Biebl: > 2016-06-27 13:49 GMT+02:00 Andrei Borzenkov <arvidj...@gmail.com>: > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Paul Menzel wrote: > > > having a template

[systemd-devel] Depending on services from a service unit template

2016-06-27 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, having a template for a service unit like `example@.service`, and starting several services from it, is there a way, to let another service unit require all services started from that template? Thanks, Paul signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

[systemd-devel] Zero downtime restart of Web application (Nginx, Puma, JRuby)

2016-06-18 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, the setup is as follows. Nginx is used as the Web server, which communicates with a Ruby on Rails application over a socket. Puma [1] is used as the application server. Nginx and Puma are managed by systemd service files. If a new version of the application is installed,

[systemd-devel] systemd as Docker process manager (was: Docker, Supervisor and systemd)

2015-07-19 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Lennart, a late thank you for your reply! Am Freitag, den 21.02.2014, 19:39 +0100 schrieb Lennart Poettering: On Thu, 20.02.14 23:25, Paul Menzel wrote: Docker, “an open-source project to easily create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application”, [1

Re: [systemd-devel] networkd: Is auto-negotiation turned off when specifying parameters in a link file?

2015-05-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Poettering wrote: On Wed, 08.04.15 22:13, Paul Menzel wrote: Wouldn't it suffice to unplug the ethernet cable, then use ethtool to turn this on, then replug it, and measuring the time until networkd notices the link beat is back? It would. But this is a rented Hetzner server and I have

Re: [systemd-devel] networkd: Is auto-negotiation turned off when specifying parameters in a link file?

2015-04-08 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Dienstag, den 07.04.2015, 18:37 +0200 schrieb Lennart Poettering: On Mon, 06.04.15 22:16, Paul Menzel wrote: Am Freitag, den 03.04.2015, 16:47 +0200 schrieb Lennart Poettering: On Thu, 02.04.15 13:11, Paul Menzel wrote: some network cards with certain cables and devices take up

Re: [systemd-devel] networkd: Is auto-negotiation turned off when specifying parameters in a link file?

2015-04-06 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Freitag, den 03.04.2015, 16:47 +0200 schrieb Lennart Poettering: On Thu, 02.04.15 13:11, Paul Menzel wrote: some network cards with certain cables and devices take up to five seconds so that the link is up [1]. $ sudo journalctl -u systemd-networkd -- Logs begin

[systemd-devel] Read and publish firmware time stamps and boot time (was: bootloader time on a non-EFI bootloader)

2015-04-06 Thread Paul Menzel
[CC’ing coreboot, GRUB, SeaBIOS, Syslinux project and Linux kernel] Am Montag, den 16.03.2015, 11:38 +0100 schrieb Kay Sievers: On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog wrote: I would like to pass the time it was spent in bootloader to systemd. Is there a kernel command line

[systemd-devel] Analyzing and debugging userspace services (with e. g. Valgrind)

2015-04-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, does systemd provide an option to debug userspace services with, for example, the instrumentation framework Valgrind [1] to find memory leaks or analyze the memory usage in more detail? If it does not, should such a feature be added? Would it be useful, to just have a switch

[systemd-devel] networkd: Is auto-negotiation turned off when specifying parameters in a link file?

2015-04-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, some network cards with certain cables and devices take up to five seconds so that the link is up [1]. $ sudo journalctl -u systemd-networkd -- Logs begin at Fr 2015-03-20 17:39:31 CET, end at So 2015-03-22 08:39:39 CET. -- Mär 20 17:39:31 myhostname

Re: [systemd-devel] systemd: Program terminated with signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception.

2015-01-05 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Montag, den 05.01.2015, 17:57 +0100 schrieb Lennart Poettering: On Tue, 30.12.14 16:51, Paul Menzel (paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net) wrote: using Debian Sid/unstable with systemd 215-8, I still have problems that there are time-outs between systemd and D-Bus, even with the current D

Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] fix spell

2014-12-30 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Susant, Am Dienstag, den 30.12.2014, 13:35 +0530 schrieb Susant Sahani: thank you for the patch. Could you please fix the summary line? For example use man: Fix three typos or man: Fix spelling as that also shows that the manual pages are touched. `git commit --amend` let’s

[systemd-devel] systemd: Program terminated with signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception.

2014-12-30 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, using Debian Sid/unstable with systemd 215-8, I still have problems that there are time-outs between systemd and D-Bus, even with the current D-Bus 1.8.12 [1]. Experiencing this again, where `systemd-logind.service` was not started, I was able to log in on tty1 but in the end

Re: [systemd-devel] Small fixes to accelerometer

2014-12-30 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Robert, thank you for your patch. You should tag patches with [PATCH] in the subject. Your MUA (mail client) Claws Mail can probably even import the mbox file `git format-patch -1` creates, which you attached. Am Dienstag, den 30.12.2014, 09:23 +0100 schrieb Robert Milasan: From

Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH 2/2] accelerometer: display short options too

2014-12-30 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Dienstag, den 30.12.2014, 18:58 +0100 schrieb Robert Milasan: --- src/udev/accelerometer/accelerometer.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Awesome! Thank you for splitting these up and submitting a v2! diff --git a/src/udev/accelerometer/accelerometer.c

[systemd-devel] LUKS passphrase asked twice when using plain device names

2014-09-23 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd and dracut folks, with Debian Sid/unstable, using plain device names like `/dev/sda1` in `/etc/fstab` and `/etc/crypttab` the LUKS passphrase has to be entered twice. Once it asked by dracut and once by systemd. I did not yet try with UUIDs and ask first if that is an error?

Re: [systemd-devel] Starting CUPS very late on a desktop and non-server system

2014-02-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Michael, thank you for your answer. Am Freitag, den 21.02.2014, 00:21 +0100 schrieb Michael Biebl: This might be of interest to you: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-systemd-maintainers/2014-February/001433.html So, the cups maintainer is already looking into this. It has

[systemd-devel] Docker, Supervisor and systemd

2014-02-20 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, Docker, “an open-source project to easily create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application”, [1] mostly recommends to use Supervisor [2] to control the processes to be run in the container, like starting and restarting them and logging the output.

[systemd-devel] Starting CUPS very late on a desktop and non-server system

2014-02-20 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, after Debian’s CTTE chose systemd as the default init system for the next Debian release, I installed it on one of the systems. Looking at the output `systemd-analyze plot`, I noticed that CUPS takes 700 ms to start and as this is a desktop system where not a lot is printed

Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] core/main.c: only reopen /dev/console if we switch-root to a custom init

2012-07-12 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Harald, thank you for the patch. Am Donnerstag, den 12.07.2012, 08:43 +0200 schrieb har...@redhat.com: From: Harald Hoyer har...@redhat.com What happens otherwise? Is there an error message? --- src/core/main.c |6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff

Re: [systemd-devel] Upstream service file for NTP daemon chrony

2012-07-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Montag, den 02.07.2012, 13:04 -0700 schrieb David Strauss: On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Paul Menzel wrote: Additionally `After=nss-lockup.target` should be set, so that the NTP Ah, nice typo I got here: s/lockup/lookup/. daemon actually finds a NTP server. Also, is this necessary

Re: [systemd-devel] Upstream service file for NTP daemon chrony

2012-07-02 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Dienstag, den 03.07.2012, 00:55 +0200 schrieb Kay Sievers: On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 12:44 AM, Paul Menzel wrote: I'm also generally skeptical of After= without a corresponding Requires= entry because it only affects the ordering if the other unit is already present in the working set

Re: [systemd-devel] Upstream service file for NTP daemon chrony

2012-07-01 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, Am Samstag, den 30.06.2012, 01:00 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel: Am Freitag, den 22.06.2012, 11:57 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel: Fedora ships systemd service files for chrony [1][2]. • chrony-wait.service: 1 [Unit] 2 Description=Wait for chrony to synchronize

Re: [systemd-devel] systemd numbers for Debian Sid/unstable system

2012-06-30 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Mittwoch, den 27.06.2012, 12:35 +0200 schrieb Lennart Poettering: On Wed, 27.06.12 12:18, Paul Menzel wrote: […] 540ms chrony.service 515ms rc.local.service The rc-local generator should be smart enough to pull this in only if it exists. It's a really slow service and most

Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH] cryptsetup: add keyfile-offset= support

2012-06-29 Thread Paul Menzel
= crypt_activate_by_keyfile_offset(cd, argv[2], CRYPT_ANY_SLOT, key_file, keyfile_size, +opt_keyfile_offset, flags); else { char **p; Otherwise this looks good. Acked-by: Paul Menzel paulepan

Re: [systemd-devel] Upstream service file for NTP daemon chrony

2012-06-29 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, I got some private (I do not know why) replies regarding this service files giving me some hints. Am Freitag, den 22.06.2012, 11:57 +0200 schrieb Paul Menzel: Fedora ships systemd service files for chrony [1][2]. • chrony-wait.service: 1 [Unit] 2 Description

Re: [systemd-devel] systemd numbers for Debian Sid/unstable system

2012-06-28 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Donnerstag, den 28.06.2012, 07:54 +0200 schrieb Tollef Fog Heen: ]] Lennart Poettering On Wed, 27.06.12 21:59, Tollef Fog Heen (tfh...@err.no) wrote: ]] Lennart Poettering Hmm, the other distributions have an #ifdef TARGET_FOOBAR section in vconsole-setup for that. Debian

[systemd-devel] How do I disable old init.d scripts?

2012-06-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, how can I disable init.d scripts which systemd loads for compatibility reasons? $ ls /etc/init.d/motd (or any other init.d script) /etc/init.d/motd $ systemd-analyze blame | grep motd 543ms motd.service $ sudo systemctl disable

[systemd-devel] `systemd-analyze blame`indicates GDM3 takes longer to start with service file than with init.d script

2012-06-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear systemd folks, after a system start I save the output of `systemd-anlyze blame`. With Debian Sid/unstable, GDM 3.4.1 and the shipped init.d script on average it took about 120 ms. For example: 124ms gdm3.service Adding the following service file $ more

Re: [systemd-devel] How do I disable old init.d scripts?

2012-06-25 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Montag, den 25.06.2012, 15:38 +0200 schrieb Lennart Poettering: On Mon, 25.06.12 15:25, Paul Menzel wrote: […] how can I disable init.d scripts which systemd loads for compatibility reasons? $ ls /etc/init.d/motd (or any other init.d script) /etc/init.d/motd

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