Bug 66926

Summary:	RFE: a command to figure out if boot up has been completed or not
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	Umut Tezduyar <umut>
Component:	general	Assignee:	systemd-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	systemd-bugs
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Umut Tezduyar 2013-07-15 13:20:59 UTC

There is no easy polling way to determine if system has booted up or not. 

while (systemctl is-active default.target == false)
   print "Still booting.."

systemctl list-jobs can be used to figure out if there are jobs left or not but the output of systemctl list-jobs is for humans. One thing could be printing out the number of ongoing jobs with "--quit" option..

ex: systemctl --quit list-jobs; echo $? > 0

Note: Yes, I am aware of the Manager interface's dbus signal sent out when boot up is completed.

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2014-06-25 10:23:50 UTC

We have a global system state now which "systemctl status" without parameters shows now.

You can also dump it like this:

systemctl show -p SystemState

If it is shown as "running" then the system is fully started up. This should cover what is necessary.

Comment 2 Lennart Poettering 2014-06-25 10:32:05 UTC

A well, I also added a high-level "systemctl is-system-running" command for this now to git.

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