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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