Description of problem:

There seems to be some default timeout (30 seconds?) in systemd that prevents certain services from ever starting (for example, kdump.service, which needs to create a kdump initramfs image from time to time, if the kernel is upgraded). This means that certain facilities are not available after upgrading to systemd.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

systemd-10-6.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. sudo systemctl start kdump.service
2. Times out and never gets to finish making its initramfs image
3.
  
Actual results:

Services such as kdump cannot be used

Expected results:

Services such as kdump can be used

Additional info:

I suggest that we revert to existing behavior of allowing things to take as long as they need by default. Or having a very obvious config knob to change this. If there must be a timeout, make it 5 minutes or something large.