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bug#57068: Resizing mcron job in vm-image.tmpl interferes with settings
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#57068: Resizing mcron job in vm-image.tmpl interferes with settings |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Aug 2022 12:30:14 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
>> There’s a third problem that I initially thought was unrelated:
>>
>> 3. The mcron job starts running before ‘xorg-server’ is up, and that
>> can cause Xorg to fail to start.
>>
>> Namely, if you run the command above, you’ll see that Xorg starts and
>> fails typically a few times in a row, until it eventually succeeds. In
>> /var/log/messages, you can see that the ‘xorg-server’ process exits with
>> code 1 (without any indication of what went wrong AFAICS) and the
>> service gets respawned.
>>
>> Now if you remove the mcron job and boot the VM, the ‘xorg-server’
>> service successfully starts. It’s 100% reproducible for me.
>
> I tried to reproduce the problem without any luck on my machine (it
> always boots fine). Odd.
Does ‘xorg-server’ successfully start from the first time, or does
succeed after a few tries? For me it systemically tries a couple of
time before it succeeds.
Ludo’.