[OE-core] [PATCH v1] systemd: Avoid fsck because time is out of sync on first boot.

[Kristian Amlie]

On 23/11/17 13:13, Burton, Ross wrote:
> Doesn't sound like something we want to be always on.  Either keep this
> in your customisations, or add it as an optional PACKAGECONFIG that you
> can turn on.

I can of course do that, but maybe this should be the default? It feels
like a bug that all devices without an onboard clock will run fsck on
their first boot.

The build time isn't very reliable either, the sstate cache could cause
it to be very far in the past. At least with a zero epoch you know what
you're getting. Is there a reason for needing the epoch to be the build
time?

-- 
Kristian


> On 22 November 2017 at 13:30, Kristian Amlie
> <kristian.amlie at northern.tech <mailto:kristian.amlie at northern.tech>> wrote:
> 
>     By default, systemd uses its build time as the epoch. When systemd is
>     launched on a system without a real time clock, this time will be
>     detected as in the future and an fsck will be done.  Setting this to 0
>     results in an epoch of January 1, 1970 which is detected as an invalid
>     time and the fsck will be skipped.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Kristian Amlie <kristian.amlie at northern.tech>
>     ---
>      meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_234.bb <http://systemd_234.bb> | 1 +
>      1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
>     diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_234.bb
>     <http://systemd_234.bb> b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_234.bb
>     <http://systemd_234.bb>
>     index 6b8745b..86c04fe 100644
>     --- a/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_234.bb <http://systemd_234.bb>
>     +++ b/meta/recipes-core/systemd/systemd_234.bb <http://systemd_234.bb>
>     @@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = " --with-rootprefix=${rootprefix} \
>                       --without-python \
>                       --with-sysvrcnd-path=${sysconfdir} \
>                       --with-firmware-path=${nonarch_base_libdir}/firmware \
>     +                 --with-time-epoch=0 \
>                     "
>      # per the systemd README, define VALGRIND=1 to run under valgrind
>      CFLAGS .= "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'valgrind', '
>     -DVALGRIND=1', '', d)}"
>     --
>     2.7.4
> 
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