Let's link the three man pages together more tightly and explain what
the two targets are about, emphasizing local/quick/reliable/approximate
vs remote/slow/unreliable/accurate synchronization.
Follow-up for: 1431b2f701fe934b42e4
* man: Advertise systemd-time-wait-sync.service more
The description of time-sync.target says that NTP services *should* pull
that target, but doesn't mention that e.g. systemd-timesyncd.service
doesn't actually do that. As a result, time-sync.target is reached way
earlier than people expect; see #5097, #8861, #11008.
systemd provides systemd-time-wait-sync.service to ameliorate this
problem, but doesn't feature it prominently in relevant manpages. In
fact, it's only mentioned in passing in systemd-timesyncd.service(8). As
a result, I ended up re-implementing that service, and I'm not the first
one: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/51338
This patch adds a mention right in the description of time-sync.target,
which will hopefully raise awareness of this helper service.
This reverts commit 6c5496c492.
sysinit.target is shared between the initrd and the host system. Pulling in
initrd-cryptsetup.target into sysinit.target causes the following warning at
boot:
Oct 27 10:42:30 workstation-uefi systemd[1]: initrd-cryptsetup.target: Starting requested but asserts failed.
Oct 27 10:42:30 workstation-uefi systemd[1]: Assertion failed for initrd-cryptsetup.target.
For encrypted block devices that we need to unlock from the initramfs,
we currently rely on dracut shipping `cryptsetup.target`. This works,
but doesn't cover the case where the encrypted block device requires
networking (i.e. the `remote-cryptsetup.target` version). That target
however is traditionally dynamically enabled.
Instead, let's rework things here by adding a `initrd-cryptsetup.target`
specifically for initramfs encrypted block device setup. This plays the
role of both `cryptsetup.target` and `remote-cryptsetup.target` in the
initramfs.
Then, adapt `systemd-cryptsetup-generator` to hook all generated
services to this new unit when running from the initrd. This is
analogous to `systemd-fstab-generator` hooking all mounts to
`initrd-fs.target`, regardless of whether they're network-backed or not.
Add a new target for synchronizing units that wish to run once during
the first boot of the system. The machine-id will be committed to disk
only after the target has been reached, thus ensuring that all units
ordered before it had a chance to complete.
For users, the square brackets already serve as markup and clearly delineate
the section name from surrounding text. Putting additional markup around that
only adds clutter. Also, we were very inconsistent in using the quotes. Let's
just drop them altogether.
Based on an internal discussion whether emergency.target should remount disks
ro, or maybe remount them rw, or do nothing. In some cases people want to boot
ro, and always remounting rw would break that. In other cases, remounting disks
ro after they have already been mounted rw is mostly pointless and might even
not be possible. So let's just document that we don't change the state.
Also: any→other, since emergency.service *is* pulled in.
Also: just advertise "emergency" as the way to boot into the target.
We are not going to remove this option, and it's way easier to type than
"systemd.unit=emergency.target".
This generator can be used by desktop environments to launch autostart
applications and services. The feature is an opt-in, triggered by
xdg-desktop-autostart.target being activated.
Also included is the new binary xdg-autostart-condition. This binary is
used as an ExecCondition to test the OnlyShowIn and NotShowIn XDG
desktop file keys. These need to be evaluated against the
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP environment variable which may not be known at
generation time.
Co-authored-by: Henri Chain <henri.chain@enioka.com>
For whatever reason, this does not get rendered propely in the man
page and results in an invalid code:
W: manual-page-warning /usr/share/man/man7/systemd.special.7.gz 103: warning: macro `AQ' not defined
We say 'user manager' and 'system manager' in most other places, so let's just
use this form here too.
In particular, let's just say "is" and "must" instead of "may be" and
"should". The weaker forms are obviously correct, but the text is easier to
understand if non-conditional forms are used.
Discussed in #13743, the -.service semantic conflicts with the
existing root mount and slice names, making this feature not
uniformly extensible to all types. Change the name to be
<type>.d instead.
Updating to this format also extends the top-level dropin to
unit types.
time-sync.target is supposed to indicate system clock is synchronized
with a remote clock, but as used through 241 it only provided a system
clock that was updated based on a locally-maintained timestamp. Systems
that are powered off for extended periods would not come up with
accurate time.
Retain the existing behavior using a new time-set.target leaving
time-sync.target for cases where accuracy is required.
Closes#8861
The "include" files had type "book" for some raeason. I don't think this
is meaningful. Let's just use the same everywhere.
$ perl -i -0pe 's^..DOCTYPE (book|refentry) PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.[25]//EN"\s+"http^<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"\n "http^gms' man/*.xml
No need to waste space, and uniformity is good.
$ perl -i -0pe 's|\n+<!--\s*SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1..\s*-->|\n<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+ -->|gms' man/*.xml
Linux can be run on a device meant to act as a USB peripheral. In order
for a machine to act as such a USB device it has to be equipped with
a UDC - USB Device Controller.
This patch adds a target reached when UDC becomes available. It can be used
for activating e.g. a service unit which composes a USB gadget with
configfs and activates it.
That recommendation is likely to cause more trouble and for pretty
much all end-user units is not useful. Let's recommend relying on
the implicit dependency instead.
Fixes#10015.
User units were in the middle, which is just confusing. Let's discuss
all system units first, and all user units second.
I'm using "System manager units" and "user manager units" instead of the more
obvious "system units" and "user units", because there are also units like
"user@.service".
This is an additional synchronization point normally not needed. Hence,
let's make it passive, i.e. pull it in from the unit which wants to be
ordered before the update service rather than by the update service
itself.
Docbook styles required those to be present, even though the templates that we
use did not show those names anywhere. But something changed semi-recently (I
would suspect docbook templates, but there was only a minor version bump in
recent years, and the changelog does not suggest anything related), and builds
now work without those entries. Let's drop this dead weight.
Tested with F26-F29, debian unstable.
$ perl -i -0pe 's/\s*<authorgroup>.*<.authorgroup>//gms' man/*xml
These lines are generally out-of-date, incomplete and unnecessary. With
SPDX and git repository much more accurate and fine grained information
about licensing and authorship is available, hence let's drop the
per-file copyright notice. Of course, removing copyright lines of others
is problematic, hence this commit only removes my own lines and leaves
all others untouched. It might be nicer if sooner or later those could
go away too, making git the only and accurate source of authorship
information.
This part of the copyright blurb stems from the GPL use recommendations:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html
The concept appears to originate in times where version control was per
file, instead of per tree, and was a way to glue the files together.
Ultimately, we nowadays don't live in that world anymore, and this
information is entirely useless anyway, as people are very welcome to
copy these files into any projects they like, and they shouldn't have to
change bits that are part of our copyright header for that.
hence, let's just get rid of this old cruft, and shorten our codebase a
bit.
Files which are installed as-is (any .service and other unit files, .conf
files, .policy files, etc), are left as is. My assumption is that SPDX
identifiers are not yet that well known, so it's better to retain the
extended header to avoid any doubt.
I also kept any copyright lines. We can probably remove them, but it'd nice to
obtain explicit acks from all involved authors before doing that.
Suspend to Hibernate is a new sleep method that invokes suspend
for a predefined period of time before automatically waking up
and hibernating the system.
It's similar to HybridSleep however there isn't a performance
impact on every suspend cycle.
It's intended to use with systems that may have a higher power
drain in their supported suspend states to prevent battery and
data loss over an extended suspend cycle.
Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com>
Changed "reboot" to "power off" in poweroff.target description. It was most likely copied and pasted from the reboot.target below, compare with e.g. halt.target
remote-cryptsetup-pre.target was designed as an active unit (that pulls in
network-online.target), the opposite of remote-fs-pre.target (a passive unit,
with individual provider services ordering itself before it and pulling it in,
for example iscsi.service and nfs-client.target).
To make remote-cryptsetup-pre.target really work, those services should be
ordered before it too. But this would require updates to all those services,
not just changes from systemd side.
But the requirements for remote-fs-pre.target and remote-cryptset-pre.target
are fairly similar (e.g. iscsi devices can certainly be used for both), so
let's reuse remote-fs-pre.target also for remote cryptsetup units. This loses
a bit of flexibility, but does away with the requirement for various provider
services to know about remote-cryptsetup-pre.target.
Lennart Poettering