On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 12:57 +0000, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > On 17/02/2015 10:55, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > ❦ 17 février 2015 10:18 GMT, Alastair McKinstry <alastair.mckinstry@sceal.ie> : > > > >>>> The breakage of compatibility of existing systems (e.g. with /usr on a > >>>> separate partition) has left a sour taste. I spent a weekend repairing > >>> systemd introduces no such breakage. Also, /usr on a separate partition > >>> was partially broken even before systemd. > >>> > >> My system broke. It was fine, I did an upgrade -> jessie. It broke > >> because of systemd and the fact I had /usr on a separate partition. > > And no initrd? Mounting /usr is the job of the initrd. > > Examination after the fact showed that if I'd had the correct packages > installed, it would have worked. > So from a Debian perspective this was 'notabug'. > (modules that were not needed day-to-day had been deleted by hand to ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > make space on /. > A broken initrd was then built during dist-upgrade. My fault). [...] Yes, exactly. Laying any blame on systemd for this is completely unreasonable. (It might be more reasonable to blame initramfs-tools if it didn't give you any warnings.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never attribute to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity.
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