Re: Debian Jessie Release
On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 21:14:48 +0300
Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Ma, 12 aug 14, 14:31:29, Joe wrote:
> > >
> > I believe there is, though I have not yet tried to use it. The
> > point is that, going back two of your paragraphs, it is a *change*,
> > and if not manually corrected will therefore break existing systems
> > on upgrade. I would have preferred to see it done the other way
> > around, i.e. that unfamiliar mount points listed in fstab would
> > need some sort of 'abort the boot if this doesn't mount' flag to be
> > added.
>
> See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=756103#35
>
> > By the way, if the boot is aborted, it would be nice to have some
> > sort of shell access available. When this fstab issue bit me, there
> > was no control available at all other than the Big Red Switch. Even
> > grub2 drops you into a rescue shell when it's unhappy, as I know
> > well.
>
> That's probably one of #755581 or #751624.
>
Yes, I'm sure it's not intended behaviour. But there's only so much
point in trying to fix sid at the moment. Is there a word for 'beyond
unstable'? I've installed apt-cacher-ng on my server to try to keep
the downloads within some sort of reason. I have five sids, and they're
all hungry, all the time...
--
Joe
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