[Bug 839595] Re: failsafe.conf's 30 second time out is too low

[Leo Milano]

Oh yes, changing that value in failsafe.conf brings back the old boot times:
tried setting to 12 and then 1, and it definitely fixed things: ( I added the //comments )

Wed Sep 7 17:13:34 PDT 2011. Boot Time [s]: 156   // Sleep 120
Wed Sep 7 18:59:59 PDT 2011. Boot Time [s]: 51     // Sleep 12 
Wed Sep 7 19:04:28 PDT 2011. Boot Time [s]: 48     // Sleep 12
Wed Sep 7 19:10:36 PDT 2011. Boot Time [s]: 37     // Sleep 1

 This is how it looks now:

#################
santisofi at minime:~$ cat /etc/init/failsafe.conf 
# failsafe

description "Failsafe Boot Delay"
author "Clint Byrum <clint at ubuntu.com>"

start on filesystem and net-device-up IFACE=lo
stop on runlevel

pre-start exec sleep 1
#################

So, it looks like, around Sept 3, something changed with an update, and
I started going to sleep for 30 secs (so boot times went around 30 sec
longer). Then, this recent change to 120 added extra 90 secs. I looked
around in dmesg and didn't find anything obvious. I will attach it
shortly, regardless.

Thanks!
Leo

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Title:
  failsafe.conf's 30 second time out is too low

Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  as far as I can understand, the 30 second sleep in failsafe.conf means
  that /etc/init/rc-sysinit.conf will start within at most 30 seconds of
  'filesystem' and 'ifup lo' having occurred.

  I think that is really to small a number.   You're only safeguarding
  against the case where a user had an entry in /etc/network/interfaces
  that where the device was removed or is not connected.  Thats a very
  rare case.  Increasing the timeout to 60 seconds would make it less
  likely to have a false positive and have rc-sysinit start early.  (Ie,
  the case where a dhcp took 35 seconds).

  The user will only be punished by waiting an additional 30 seconds in
  the case that they have a  misconfigured or out of date
  /etc/network/interfaces.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: upstart 1.3-0ubuntu6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.14-generic 3.0.3
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Sep  2 10:02:10 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: upstart
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2010-11-15 (290 days ago)

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