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starfry

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From: Surrey, UK

Registered: 2010-08-18

Posts: 230

[SOLVED] Archiso boot script: wait for keyring, etc, to be ready

I have a scripted install that uses the Arch ISO with its "script" option as a launch platform. I need my script to wait until the booted iso environment is ready, in particular that its keyring is set up.

I could watch the journal for "A start job for unit archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync.timer has finished successfully" but that feels wrong...

I'd like my script to wait until the system it's running on is ready.

What's the correct way to do this, if there is one ?

Last edited by starfry (2024-01-02 16:04:03)

nl6720

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Registered: 2016-07-02

Posts: 601

Re: [SOLVED] Archiso boot script: wait for keyring, etc, to be ready

archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync.timer won't always trigger. You may want to watch for pacman-init.service instead.
E.g.:

while ! systemctl -q is-active pacman-init.service; do sleep 1; done

starfry

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From: Surrey, UK

Registered: 2010-08-18

Posts: 230

Re: [SOLVED] Archiso boot script: wait for keyring, etc, to be ready

Thanks, that works for me