Re: [Users] forced shutdown with client agent
On 20 Apr 2013, at 22:42, Itamar Heim <iheim(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 03/29/2013 04:58 AM, Thomas Scofield wrote:
> I have run into a scenario after installing the client agent. If a VM
> is shutdown, the client agent calls the shutdown command with a 1 minute
> timeout.
>
> Dummy-2::INFO::2013-03-28
> 14:05:21,892::vdsAgentLogic::138::root::Shutting down (timeout = 30,
> message = 'System Administrator has initiated shutdown of this Virtual
> Machine. Virtual Machine is shutting down.'
>
> Since the shutdown command is called with time parameter the VM sets the
> /etc/nologin file. When the VM is forced down the /etc/nologin file is
> not cleared and when it comes back up only root can login until the
> /etc/nologin file is cleared.
hmmm, Vinzenz - should guest agent clear that on guest startup, if guest agent set this
at shutdown?
It's not guest agent, "shutdown" does it. It behaves the
same on real hw
>
> Is their some some reason the shutdown time is set to 30 seconds
> (rounded up to 1 minute in the code)? Are there any know issues with
> setting this to 0?
Vinzenz - if we are rounding up - is this a bug?
possibly yes
>
> Is this the right way to change it to 0?
> psql engine postgres -c "update vdc_options set option_value = '0'
where
> option_name = 'VmGracefulShutdownTimeout';"
notmally the grace
period is there for other users to react befor shutdown starts. I wonder if it's that
much relevant here.., if we assume single user most of the time 0 (i.e. "now")
should be ok
>
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