Bug#751624: [systemd]: emergency shell takes several minutes to start

[Michael Gold]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 18:50:02 -0400, Michael Gold wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 23:44:42 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > Am 14.06.2014 22:41, schrieb Michael Gold:
> > >  * after printing "Welcome to emergency mode!", it took a minute or two
> > >    before a password prompt was shown; but that prompt died (I guess)
> > >    without accepting any keyboard input, and after another few minutes I
> > >    got another welcome message and password prompt (it worked this time)
> > 
> > Well, that's not quite what happens.
> > systemd has a timeout of 90secs where it waits for devices listed in
> > fstab to show up. after that it drops into the rescue shell.
> > 
> > So it's not that the rescue shell takes a long time to start, it's
> > simply a timeout where systemd waits.
> 
> But why does it print the welcome message 3 times, with a delay each
> time?  And why does it give me an unusable root password prompt minutes
> before giving me a working one?

Also, does it make sense that it waits *after* printing "Welcome to
emergency mode"?  Presumably the timeout is what triggered that message
in the first place.

-- Michael
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