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Last week my main server/gateway lost a interface (probibly a hardware bug), so I went to quickly reboot it. Imagine my dismay as I saw the reboot process stall for 3 minutes (out of "no limit") running man-db cache refresh. I couldn't stop it or do anything, I just had to wait. Please consider moving this job to something like '30min after boot' or the like where it can run in the background and not bother people when they need a quick reboot.
I just hit this as well, on a F30 system using man-db-2.8.4-4.fc30.x86_64 It now has a 15min timeout but that still doesn't help when you are trying to quickly reboot.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle. Changing version to 31.
Hitting this as well on both F30 and F31 beta just after upgrade. Is very annoying to wait at least a few minutes when you're rebooting after installing updates.
Sorry it took me so long. I've come up with the following solution: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/man-db/pull-request/6#request_diff Enabling and disabling the service by itself in the unit file seems a bit hackish, but I couldn't think of anything better.
So just to be clear, that runs on boot, but doesn't block bootup? Or does the boot block waiting for that to complete before the machine is fully up?
Good point, it does block multi-user.target, which is most likely not what we want. I've updated the PR.
Pushed and built in rawhide: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/man-db/c/75b683fe495e761059857c797159610881208ca6?branch=master I decided not to deploy this into stable releases, I'd rather get some feedback first.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 32 development cycle. Changing version to 32.
Would love to see this backported to all supported versions. Please.
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