Re: Handle device node timeout?

[Lennart Poettering <lennart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Di, 16.01.24 16:06, Mikko Rapeli (mikko.rapeli@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have services which depend on a specific device node. How can I run
> some recovery actions when the default 90s timeout for finding this
> device is hit?
>
> OnFailure= doesn't work as the service is not even started.
>
> Specifically the case is about supporting TPM2 encrypted rootfs but falling
> back to plain-text rootfs generation if there is no TPM2 device. Currently
> my initramfs works with TPM2 but without it fails with:

In git main there's new infra to deal with this case:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/30194

That should hopefully solve this systematically and generically.

Lennart

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