Improving boot speed of Raspberry Pi (Jessie)

A quick note for myself:

Raspberry Pi hangs on “a start job is running for lsb no limit” – this is the network interface manager trying to start up its connections. If you have interfaces listed in /etc/networking/interfaces which do not exist, you might see a timeout or delay here.

Solution: create a new file (and possibly folder if needed) in /etc/systemd/system/networking.service.d/reduce-timeout.conf

[Service]
TimeoutStartSec=5

This will drastically reduce the starting timeout for interfaces. I haven’t tested in detail, but it looks like new interfaces will still load normally after boot.

Worth noting that systemd first looks in /lib/systemd/ for various default configs, then looks in /etc/systemd/ for additional configs, before merging them all. The exact chain of configs as applied can be seen by running systemctl status networking.service

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Southern Rail Strikes Dates

GTR operates the Southern rail franchise in England, which covers several counties south of London. They are currently in a dispute with the RMT and ASLEF Unions over on-board roles and responsibilities.

I work with a number of town centres across the affected region and we are interested in seeing the effect of these actions on High Street performance. To achieve this, I have compiled a list of dates and sources. It will be updated as I gather more information, and I welcome contributions.

Disclaimer: This post was last updated on 6 December 2016 and is a work in progress. E&OE. It may not be current and should not be relied upon for planning or other purposes.

Apr 2016

1100 Tue 26 April – 1059 Wed 27 April
RMT strike, 24 hours – Sources: BBC; RMT Website

May 2016

Postponed 1100 Tue 10 May – 1059 Wed 11 May
RMT strike – Source: RMT Website; postponement notice

Postponed 1100 Thu 12 May – 1059 Fri 13 May
RMT strike – Source: RMT Website; postponement notice

0001-2359 Wed 18 May
RMT strike. Was Fri 20 May but brought forward. Sources: Southern Press Office 1 & 2; RMT switch notice

Brought forward 0001-2359 Fri 20 May
RMT strike. Pulled back from two previous 24-hour strikes. Source: RMT Postponement notice

June 2016

0001-2359 Tue 21 June
RMT strike. Sources: Southern press release; BBC; Twitter

July 2016

* Southern began revised timetable from 11 July 2016

Aug 2016

0001 Mon 8 Aug – 2359 Friday 12 Aug [Sources: RMT announcement and calling-off]
RMT Strike suspended at 2200 on Wednesday 10 August. Southern resumed pre-strike timetable on Friday.

Sep 2016

0001 Wed 7 September – 2359 Thu 8 September
RMT Guard strike on Southern [Source: RMT]

Called off 0001-2359 Wed 7 September
RMT Station staff strike across GTR i.e. not specific to Southern [Source: Southern; RMT calling-off]

Oct 2016

0001 Tue 18 October – 2359 Thu 20 October
RMT strike [Source: BBC; RMT]

Nov 2016

0001 Thu 3 November – 2359 Sat 5 November [Source: BBC]
RMT strike

0001 Tue 22 November – 2359 Wed 23 November [Source: BBC]
RMT Guards strike

Dec 2016

0001 Tue 6 December – 2359 Thu 8 December [Source: BBC; RMT]
RMT Guards Strike

Tue 13 December – Wed 14 December [Source: ASLEF]
ASLEF Drivers strike

Fri 16 December [Source: ASLEF]
ASLEF Drivers strike

0001 Mon 19 – 2359 Tue 20 December [Source: RMT]
RMT Guards Strike [changed date, was 22-24 Dec]

Brought forward Thu 22 – Sat 24 December [Source: RMT]
RMT Guards Strike – brought forward to 19-20 Dec

0001 Sat 31 December – 2359 Mon 2 January 2017 [Source: RMT]
RMT Guards Strike

Jan 2017

Mon 9 – Sat 14 ASLEF [confirmed ASLEF website]

Updates?

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