systemd service timeout with kdump

[Michal Schmidt]

On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 01:21:03 -0400 Jon Masters wrote:
> It would seem that systemd employs some kind of arbitrary timeout (30
> seconds?)

60 s

> 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).

Someone has, bug 635393.

> 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 :)

It's "TimeoutSec=...", described in "man systemd.service".

Michal