8 minute Upstart delay during LTSP client boot

[Steve Langasek]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 02:24:22PM +0100, Matthew Wyneken wrote:
> I thought I would just report that I discovered the cause of the eight
> minute delay: /etc/resolv.conf was missing.

Glad to hear you got this working!

> I finally tracked it down by calling /bin/sh instead of init, starting an
> strace on pid 1 in a second console and starting init by hand.

> This was way too much effort for such a simple problem, but at least I
> found it.

I think it's important to distinguish here between a simple *problem* vs. a
simple *fix*.  There's nothing simple about the problem of having key
configuration files missing from your filesystem.

Since the issue was with /etc/resolv.conf, it's worth pointing out that
Ubuntu recently (== in the 12.04 timeframe) transitioned to using resolvconf
for managing this file.  It's possible there was a bug in how you generated
your ltsp client rootfs that left resolvconf unconfigured or otherwise
broken.  Or it's possible there was a bug in the upgrade in your particular
environment.  If you determine that this is the case, we would certainly
like to know about it.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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