[Users] forced shutdown with client agent

[Vinzenz Feenstra]

On 04/20/2013 10:52 PM, Michal Skrivanek wrote:
>
> On 20 Apr 2013, at 22:42, Itamar Heim <iheim at 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
Sounds pretty much like a bug to me
>
>
>>> 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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Vinzenz Feenstra | Senior Software Engineer
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