Wladimir J. van der Laan ca8218301b
Merge #20884: script: Improve robustness of bitcoind.service on startup
9d026546778629472574b26fa73338efc63d02da doc: Fix systemd spelling and link to doc/init.md (Hennadii Stepanov)
601778c3107adbd8d96eb0bb5c16a9d0a4b81594 script: Add Documentation key to bitcoind.service (Hennadii Stepanov)
d9392b724cae53b7a16fa5f84ebe152eea496502 script: Improve robustness of bitcoind.service on startup (Hennadii Stepanov)

Pull request description:

  If network interfaces are not properly up the following happens:
  ```
  ...
  2021-01-08T10:17:11Z scheduler thread start
  2021-01-08T10:17:11Z libevent: getaddrinfo: address family for nodename not supported
  2021-01-08T10:17:11Z Binding RPC on address 127.0.0.1 port 8332 failed.
  2021-01-08T10:17:11Z HTTP: creating work queue of depth 16
  2021-01-08T10:17:11Z Using random cookie authentication.
  2021-01-08T10:17:11Z Generated RPC authentication cookie /var/lib/bitcoind/.cookie
  2021-01-08T10:17:11Z HTTP: starting 2 worker threads
  2021-01-08T10:17:11Z init message: Loading banlist...
  2021-01-08T10:17:11Z SetNetworkActive: true
  2021-01-08T10:17:11Z Error: Cannot resolve -externalip address: <EDITED>
  2021-01-08T10:17:11Z Shutdown: In progress...
  2021-01-08T10:17:11Z scheduler thread exit
  2021-01-08T10:17:11Z Shutdown: done
  ```

  This PR improves robustness on startup in such cases in documented way:
  https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/NetworkTarget/

  Also minor doc improvements are added.

ACKs for top commit:
  Sjors:
    ACK 9d02654
  practicalswift:
    ACK 9d026546778629472574b26fa73338efc63d02da: patch looks correct
  darosior:
    ACK 9d026546778629472574b26fa73338efc63d02da -- been using the first patch too

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2020-12-31 09:45:41 +01:00

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