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Re: systemd waisted 5 hours of my work time today



On 2014-07-24 16:18 +0200, Sharon Kimble wrote:

> Johann Spies <johann.spies@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This morning my work laptop would not boot.  I could not even get to
>> single user mode initially and when I got  as far as that I could
>> not
>> type anything on the terminal.  I suspect some upgrade yesterday caused it.

There should be at least some message on the terminal, although other
people have not been able to log in in that situation either[1].

> Yesterday I had the same problem when I rebooted, it left me at a tty
> screen, where I was prompted to input my login and password, it then
> lead on to my lightdm screen, as expected.

That's not the same problem.  In fact, it is not even a problem but
merely the fact that getty starts up much faster than X.

> Whilst booting it showed an error message, which I've since been unable
> to find, that systemd had broken error/start messages.

You should be able to find them in the journal, see journalctl(1).
Note that that systemd clears the boot messages by default when it
starts getty, see [2] on how to change that.

Cheers,
       Sven


1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=755581
2. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disable_Clearing_of_Boot_Messages


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