[Mageia-dev] irqbalance (was: Re: Fwd: Re: M3 won't complete boot after update)

Sun Sep 30 15:39:46 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 27/09/12 17:05 did gyre and gimble:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 27/09/12 16:09 did gyre and gimble:
+>> Colin Guthrie skrev 27.9.2012 15:31:
+>>> 'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 27/09/12 11:02 did gyre and gimble:
+>>>>
+>>>> While the new reboot is completing, and while I remember - irqbalance
+>>>> daemon always fails to start.  I've assumed it's not relevant?
+>>>
+>>> I noticed this yesterday too. It has a very incomplete systemd unit for
+>>> some reason. Will have to investigate who added that without checking it.
+>>>
+>>
+>> I did ... for Mga2 the service file shipped in irqbalance-1.0.3 tarball
+>> works, but for the updated 1.0.4 in Cauldron upstream did this:
+>>
+>> --- irqbalance-1.0.3/misc/irqbalance.service
+>> +++ irqbalance-1.0.4/misc/irqbalance.service
+>> @@ -3,9 +3,8 @@ Description=irqbalance daemon
+>>  After=syslog.target
+>>
+>>  [Service]
+>> -EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/irqbalance
+>> -Type=forking
+>> -ExecStart=/usr/sbin/irqbalance $ONESHOT
+>> +EnvironmentFile=/path/to/irqbalance.env
+>> +ExecStart=/usr/sbin/irqbalance --foreground $IRQBALANCE_ARGS
+> 
+> Well, I'm glad upstream have made their unit much better :p
+
+Interestingly with the updated version, irqbalance --foreground seems to
+exit after about 10s which isn't very useful.
+
+Col
+
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