systemd service timeout with kdump

[Jon Masters]

Folks,

It would seem that systemd employs some kind of arbitrary timeout (30
seconds?) by default and will log "operation timed out. Terminating" if
things take longer than this time to start up. I would like to know how
to increase this timeout, or to (preferably) disable it entirely.

Certain services, such as kdump.service might require some time to
recreate their initramfs and will thus never be able to start normally
(I'm very surprised if nobody else has seen this type of problem). On
rawhide, I am going to look at the systemd code to see if I have options
already (the man pages didn't turn up anything) but otherwise I guess I
get to run the commands in /etc/init.d/kdump by hand for now :)

Jon.