On 04/28/2012 08:29 AM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > We are in 2012 and if a non-essential daemon blocks the boot (no working > network), we have no way to get a getty to be run. > I agree with the rest of your post, but here, you are are picturing a very badly written init script that doesn't have a working failure mode! No daemon should block the boot, even with our current system. If it does, please feel free to file a bug. Thomas