Increase timeout to 16 minutes

src/freenas/etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/override.conf

@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 [Unit]
-# If the service fails mroe than once in 10 secs without
-# ever hitting an active state, we will have systemd to stop retrying
 StartLimitBurst=1
-StartLimitIntervalSec=10
+StartLimitIntervalSec=900
 
 [Service]
 ExecStartPost=/bin/sh -c "iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT && ip6tables -P FORWARD ACCEPT"

src/middlewared/middlewared/plugins/service_/services/docker.py

@@ -24,9 +24,10 @@ async def before_start(self):
     async def start(self):
         try:
             await super().start()
-            timeout = 120  # We have this at 120 because HDDs are notorious and docker can take more time there
-            # First time when docker is started, it takes a bit more time to initialise itself properly
-            # and we need to have sleep here so that after start is called post_start is not dismissed
+            # We have a timeout for docker to start within 15 minutes of the above call, if that doesn't happen
+            # then we get into a failed start that docker failed to start. This has been necessary because
+            # HDDs have been notorious and can take quite some time for docker to start on boot.
+            timeout = 8 * 60  # We do 8 because we sleep for 2 secs - so in total it is 16 minutes
             while timeout > 0:
                 if not await self.middleware.call('service.started', 'docker'):
                     await asyncio.sleep(2)