bug#57068: Resizing mcron job in vm-image.tmpl interferes with settings

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hi,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:

>> There’s a third problem that I initially thought was unrelated:
>>
>>   3. The mcron job starts running before ‘xorg-server’ is up, and that
>>      can cause Xorg to fail to start.
>>
>> Namely, if you run the command above, you’ll see that Xorg starts and
>> fails typically a few times in a row, until it eventually succeeds.  In
>> /var/log/messages, you can see that the ‘xorg-server’ process exits with
>> code 1 (without any indication of what went wrong AFAICS) and the
>> service gets respawned.
>>
>> Now if you remove the mcron job and boot the VM, the ‘xorg-server’
>> service successfully starts.  It’s 100% reproducible for me.
>
> I tried to reproduce the problem without any luck on my machine (it
> always boots fine).  Odd.

Does ‘xorg-server’ successfully start from the first time, or does
succeed after a few tries?  For me it systemically tries a couple of
time before it succeeds.

Ludo’.