[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#821254: systemd[1]: xendomains.service start operation timed out.

[Hans van Kranenburg]

Hi Andy,

Just to set expectations... Ian is not using systemd at all, and for me,
the current whatever init script stuff there is does its thing for my
usecase at work. I don't use xendomains, I use live migrate to drain
physical servers so I can reboot / upgrade / whatever them without any
need to hurry. TBH, all the extra-time I had for working on Debian/Xen
in the last months was eaten by getting things fixed for myself, like
live migration bugs.

Yesterday, we spend the day working on the Buster TODO list, and in the
beginning of the day we identified "init scripts and systemd" as the
main topic of the day. However, when starting to look into that, it
quickly became clear that "just" merging the debian and upstream init
scripts is not a trivial operation (it needs discussion with the
redhat-based users). When working on actually shipping systemd units
we'd really need to have a group of users that want to actively help
testing everything. Downgrade, upgrade, try to break it etc...

For buster, there will be a notice in the "known-issues" section of
README.Debian about this issue.

If you have an idea about how to change this timeout then please share.
Don't wait for it to magically happen. :)

Hans