From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 43D4B139083 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2017 22:19:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 85B43E0F1C; Wed, 13 Dec 2017 22:19:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from auth-3.ukservers.net (auth-3.ukservers.net [217.10.138.152]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1A460E0E95 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2017 22:19:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.64] (host31-49-160-255.range31-49.btcentralplus.com [31.49.160.255]) by auth-3.ukservers.net (Postfix smtp) with ESMTPA id 2B2F05412F3 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2017 22:18:58 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <6582741.F9gJHCEsXr@dell_xps> <2343494.DDJaQvByiF@dell_xps> <6cb25230-9803-2bd4-ee69-66504d0d1822@gmx.com> <5A2D04A1.6090101@youngman.org.uk> <20171210101330.GA5671@ACM> <20171211185602.7a1853c9@digimed.co.uk> <20171211210321.GA12473@ACM> <20171212185515.GA5274@ACM> <5A303803.8070105@youngman.org.uk> <20171213000237.7a82ef5c@digimed.co.uk> <5A3132C2.5020906@youngman.org.uk> <20171213151726.33014b31@digimed.co.uk> From: Wols Lists Message-ID: <5A31A751.1010104@youngman.org.uk> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 22:18:57 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20171213151726.33014b31@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 95894ac9-f600-47df-91a0-e190caa788cf X-Archives-Hash: fb83703e903d6ec5fb41365605ecb4bd On 13/12/17 15:17, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 14:01:38 +0000, Wols Lists wrote: > >>> Can't you change this with fstab settings. I see a similar behaviour >>> when trying t mount NFS shares that aren't there, but it gives up >>> trying after 90s and gets on with booting the computer. >> >> I've tried ... >> >> Systemd and mounting anything other than local linux hard drives gives >> me a migraine ... >> >> Yes I *should* be able to tell it to just forget about drives it can't >> mount while booting. Yes I *should* be able to tell it to just forget >> about drives it can't access while shutting down. Yes I *should* be able >> to tell it to do what I want, but it seems that no matter what I tell >> it, it randomly refuses to boot or shut down because of a hiccup with a >> Windows or network mount :-( > > Have you tried adding x-systemd.mount-timeout= and/or nofail to the > options in fstab? See man systemd.mount. > > Quite likely. And ditched thanks to the guaranteed hang on shutdown as a result, I think. Every "fix" causes a different problem elsewhere, ime :-( Cheers, Wol