The PCEngines APU2 systems with mSATA disks tend to be very slow. This results in a service startup error:
$ systemctl status vyos-grub-update × vyos-grub-update.service - Update GRUB loader configuration structure Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/vyos-grub-update.service; enabled; preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Sun 2024-03-24 08:48:10 UTC; 14min ago Main PID: 779 (code=killed, signal=TERM) CPU: 869ms Mar 24 08:48:05 LR4.wue3 systemd[1]: Starting vyos-grub-update.service - Update GRUB loader configuration structure... Mar 24 08:48:10 LR4.wue3 systemd[1]: vyos-grub-update.service: start operation timed out. Terminating. Mar 24 08:48:10 LR4.wue3 systemd[1]: vyos-grub-update.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=15/TERM Mar 24 08:48:10 LR4.wue3 systemd[1]: vyos-grub-update.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. Mar 24 08:48:10 LR4.wue3 systemd[1]: Failed to start vyos-grub-update.service - Update GRUB loader configuration structure.
Measunring on an APU2 system after boot and memory is "hot", it still needs almost 17 seconds to complete the job
[email protected]:~$ time sudo /usr/libexec/vyos/system/grub_update.py real 0m16.803s user 0m0.018s sys 0m0.028s
Fix
Increasing the timeout to 60 seconds get's rid of the problem as there's plenty time to startup the service
[email protected]:~$ systemctl status vyos-grub-update ○ vyos-grub-update.service - Update GRUB loader configuration structure Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/vyos-grub-update.service; enabled; preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) since Sun 2024-03-24 09:12:49 UTC; 1min 52s ago Main PID: 780 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CPU: 24.961s Mar 24 09:12:09 LR4.wue3 systemd[1]: Starting vyos-grub-update.service - Update GRUB loader configuration structure... Mar 24 09:12:49 LR4.wue3 systemd[1]: vyos-grub-update.service: Deactivated successfully. Mar 24 09:12:49 LR4.wue3 systemd[1]: Finished vyos-grub-update.service - Update GRUB loader configuration structure. Mar 24 09:12:49 LR4.wue3 systemd[1]: vyos-grub-update.service: Consumed 24.961s CPU time.