Re: all modern desktops need systemd, either send patches or life with it (Re: systemd now appears to be only possible init system in testing)

To: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: all modern desktops need systemd, either send patches or life with it (Re: systemd now appears to be only possible init system in testing)
From: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 17:11:34 +0200
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> However, you're doing this during boot, so there *are* no active users,
> since the system hasn't come up far enough to let anyone log in yet.  So
> it makes sense that you don't get a prompt.

Does that mean that the new pid 1 expects users to be logged in before it
starts the system?

-- Juliusz

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