Hi,
I have some hosts with Xen VMs running, and on shutdown, the classic LSB script /etc/init.d/xendomains is used to start and stop the "service" on openSUSE. There is intricate logic in there to stop/migrate/suspend these VMs according to user preferences. In any case, the shutdown process may take considerably longer than your usual signalling-killing of a process. Under sysvinit, the LSB script would output a status line and update it every second to show it was waiting for the VM to complete shutdown. In systemd, this is no longer the case because LSB output is suppressed and written to the journal instead. That in itself would be fine, but the problem is that on _system_ shutdown, since any login processes will have already be stopped by systemd, there is no way for the admin to check what is going on, and the system just practically sits there as though it would hang. I think systemd should print some status message -- like "Shutdown of xendomains.service still running" every 5sec, maybe? -- when shutting down some service takes longer than expected. If a login shell on console was not killed until the really last moment (right before umount), that would be even better. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
