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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: general: non-sysvinit init systems are made of fail
- From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 15:41:43 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20141117144143.9935.25763.reportbug@iscsi>
Package: general Severity: important Dear Debian Maintainers, I tried the alternative init systems (namely upstart and systemd) and while I think there is some potential in these systems I don't think they are ready for Jessie. As basic system component the init system needs to be very realiable which cannot be guaranteed for a piece of software that is introduced and installed by default as core system component in the same release cycle. There was some possibility to install alternative init system in wheezy but as the support for switching between the various systems was not in place it was not very practical and the packaging tools discouraged such use. I tried to install an alternative init system on like half a dozen of systems and I am disappointed. I stumbled upon two serious problems with these new systems. 1) the problem with new feature in systemd which considers all filesystems in fstab vital for system boot and stops boot if they fail. It's been decided that although it is a change in behaviour that might render some systems unbootable it's technically correct implementation and only enforces that non-vital filesystems are marked as such in fstab which should have been the case from the start. 2) other problem is 'mystery meat init' - you see some initial bootloader or kernel messages and when init starts .. nothing. When init decides a filesystem needs to be checked or that it has to stop due to error .. nothing. To be a reasonable sysvinit replacement systemd and upstart must output messages to consoles(s) to which sysvinit did output messages, even on systems with multiple consoles (eg. serial, vga, kms). Note that this is on systems where sysvinit does give messages on the console so if the system was upgraded to systemd as part of release upgrade it would lose console as the result or upgrading to new release. I am wondering what other subtle bugs are lurking in these new init systems. I am not completely against switching to a new init system but imho that should be done only once that init system was avaialble for at least one release as routinely installable and uninstallable package. Otherwise the core system component cannot possibly have been tested for suitability in general and for good integration into Debian in particular. Thanks Michal -- System Information: Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu GNU/Linux testing (jessie) Release: testing Codename: jessie Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.11-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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- To: 769907-done@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#769907: general: non-sysvinit init systems are made of fail
- From: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 15:55:49 +0100
- Message-id: <201411171555.56561.holger@layer-acht.org>
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20141117144143.9935.25763.reportbug@iscsi>
- References: <[🔎] 20141117144143.9935.25763.reportbug@iscsi>
Hi, On Montag, 17. November 2014, Michal Suchanek wrote: > Package: general I'm sorry but this is not a general bug in Debian. Also your description of these "two serious problems" lack any specific problems you encountered, for a start you failed to say whether you encountered these problem with systemd or upstart. Thus closing. cheers, HolgerAttachment: signature.asc
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