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Re: Debian systemd survey



On 2013-05-22 15:39:00 +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> On 05/22/2013 04:50 AM, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> >Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> >>I went through the various init systems threads again during the last
> >>few days. My understanding of the consensus so far is the following:
> >>
> >>- Both systemd and upstart bring many useful features, and are a
> >>   clear improvement over sysvinit.
> >
> >Yes, both are an improvement over sysvinit.
> 
> Hrmm, I have not tested systemd yet, but personally I'm not conviced about
> the advantages of upstart:
> 
> - Stops booting *somtimes*, does not provide any information why. I didn't
> report a bug yet as an almost black screen won't help in any way how to
> figure out why it stopped. Already that stops without any further
> information why and where is a sufficiently big design issue, imho.
> (Btw, in the mean time I belive this issue is related to /etc/mtab, but I'm
> not sure yet.).

Well, a frozen boot without much information can also occur with
sysvinit (e.g. due to udev). For instance, I had the following
problem in the past:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606192

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