Re: Handle device node timeout?

[Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 11:18:13AM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, I will try to port these patches to our systemd 254.4.

Cheers,

-Mikko