When starting kdump service with dump target being ssh host, after network-online.target, we connect to ssh host and touch the dump directory to make sure the host is ready to be dumped to.
Chances are after network-online.target, the particular network resource we interest in isn't ready for connecting to the specified ssh host. And at that time, we connect to ssh host and fail.
What we should do is to wait for the specific network resource, not totally depending on network-online.target. But it's relatively complicated to implement. A simple and direct solution would be try as many time as it needs to connect to the configured ssh host. However to avoid a infinitely loop, we time out and fail. I set this time out value to be 180 seconds, and general speaking, 180 seconds would be enough for almost any kind of network to be up and ready.
Signed-off-by: WANG Chao chaowang@redhat.com --- kdumpctl | 15 +++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kdumpctl b/kdumpctl index 9cae0c4..0bd6021 100755 --- a/kdumpctl +++ b/kdumpctl @@ -381,8 +381,19 @@ function check_ssh_config() function check_ssh_target() { local _ret - ssh -q -i $SSH_KEY_LOCATION -o BatchMode=yes $DUMP_TARGET mkdir -p $SAVE_PATH - _ret=$? + local _start _delta + + # Timeout out after 180 seconds, hopefully it's enough. + _start=$(date +%s) + while : ; do + ssh -q -i $SSH_KEY_LOCATION -o BatchMode=yes $DUMP_TARGET mkdir -p $SAVE_PATH + _ret=$? + _delta=$(($(date +%s) - $_start)) + if [[ $_ret -eq 0 || $_delta -gt 180 ]]; then + break + fi + done + if [ $_ret -ne 0 ]; then echo "Could not create $DUMP_TARGET:$SAVE_PATH, you probably need to run "kdumpctl propagate"" >&2 return 1