[PKG-Openstack-devel] Bug#870001: openvswitch-switch: switch takes a very long time to start or fails without upstream's SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_REDIRECT=yes

[Michael Biebl]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 18:51:18 +0200 John Keates <john at keates.nl> wrote:
> Package: openvswitch-switch
> Version: 2.6.2~pre+git20161223-3
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I setup openvswitch-switch with a small number of switches that have one physical interface each. Upon boot, they get configured extremely slow, taking over half an hour to get basic networking up.
> 
> On IRC and the upstream repository, I found out that systemd now needs SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_REDIRECT=yes on newer systems, on top of the existing _SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_REDIRECT=yes. This is added in the upstream version, but not in the current versions in Stretch, Buster or Sid.

SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_REDIRECT is an internal implementation detail of the
systemd lsb hook and should *never* be used in an init scripts directly.

You should get to the bottom this and find out why the SysV init script
is slow to start up instead of applying workarounds/hacks.

@Thomas: Please remove this hack from the init script



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