Bug#766092: systemd: Boot hangs indefinitely

[Michael Biebl]

Am 22.10.2014 um 19:08 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> If you even had more files in /tmp and maybe you have an HDD, it's very
> well possible, that systemd-tmpfiles will need several minutes.
> That's why I wanted to know, how long you let the systemd-tmpfiles job  run.

Case in point: A user at [1] reported, that he had about 2 million files
in /tmp and it took several hours to clean that up:

>  * systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service hung like forever during boot
>  * booting from a live system showed that 'ls ./tmp' hangs
>  * 'ls -U ./tmp | wc -l' showed nearly 2 million files in tmp
>  * 'find ./tmp -type l -delete' took several hours to delete the links





Cheers,
Michael

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=764253#22
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