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systemd: increase default timeout of NetworkManager-wait-online

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We encountered the following situation:
* nm-online (NetworkManager-wait-online.service) is started
* NetworkManager tries to configure network
* the first try of using dhclient fails with timeout for some reasons
* the second try of running dhclient completes successfully (NMs tries himself)
We get a working network, but it takes more that 30 seconds.

NetworkManager-wait-online.service fails, it may be a false negative
to checkers of network being online. It will also be a false positive signal
to start mounting network (CIFS, NFS etc.) shares, for example, because
they depend from network-online.target and network-online.target will become
reached right after NetworkManager-wait-online.service fails.

So, it makes sense to increase default timeout from 30 to 60 seconds.

@thaller wrote in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/issues/237
that there may be cases where, for example, incorrectly set up bridges
or just network may lead to delays when booting the system.

Yes, but:
* if there is no possibility to start trying to connect the network, e.g. if all network interfaces,
  managed by NetworkManager, are DOWN, NM will not try to connect network and "nm-online -s" will
  exit with 0 without waiting (so, this will not prolong start up of workstations or servers
  when ethernet cable is just not plugged in)
* an additional potential 30 seconds delay seems to be less harmful then a false positive to start
  mounting network shares or doing abything else too eraly, when an additional wait for a few seconds
  would have prevented those things from failing.

All things considered, it seems reasonable to increase this timeout from 30 seconds to 1 minute (60 seconds).

Signed-off-by: Mikhail Novosyolov <m.novosyolov@rosalinux.ru>

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/merge_requests/675
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Mikhail Novosyolov
2020-11-09 16:12:32 +03:00
committed by Thomas Haller
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@@ -26,7 +26,9 @@ RemainAfterExit=yes
# gets delayed too long, then the solution is usually not to decrease # gets delayed too long, then the solution is usually not to decrease
# the timeout, but to fix your setup so that the connected state # the timeout, but to fix your setup so that the connected state
# gets reached earlier. # gets reached earlier.
Environment=NM_ONLINE_TIMEOUT=30 # If there is no network to connect to (if network interface is down),
# NetworkManager will make "nm-online -s" stop without waiting.
Environment=NM_ONLINE_TIMEOUT=60
[Install] [Install]
WantedBy=network-online.target WantedBy=network-online.target