On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 10:48:03AM +0100, Francis Moreau wrote: > Hello, > > I'm puzzled about systemd-firstboot service. > > In my understanding this service is ran only during the firstboot. The > firstboot condition is detected with the presence of /etc/machine-id > file. > > If this file is not present then it's assumed to be a first boot and > systemd-firstboot.service is ran and will create the machine-id file. > > Now the thing is that I dont see how systemd-firstboot.service can > have a chance to be started because if /etc/machine-id is missing the > whole boot is failing due to journald requiring /etc/machine-id. > > Could anybody give me some clues ?
machine_id_setup() is called from main(). So pid1 should set up /etc/machine-id if possible (/etc is wriable) before it starts the firstboot services. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
