[systemd-devel] Allow stop jobs to be killed during shutdown

[Michael Biebl]

2014/1/24 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>:
> On Fri, 24.01.14 18:18, Michael Biebl (mbiebl at gmail.com) wrote:
>>
>> Making the shutdown more verbose in such a situation would imho be a
>> good idea, showing a countdown or something like that with a note for
>> which service systemd is currently waiting to be shutdown.
>>
>> I completely agree with Tom here: In situations where on shutdown (or
>> boot for that matter) the system blocks for longer then 30-60 secs and
>> no feedback at all most people will simply assume the system got stuck
>> and do power-reset.
>
> Yupp, Michal had the same idea, that's why there is the eye-of-sauron
> animation in place...

Ah, good to know. That's a start.
I guess my systemd version (v204) is simply too old then?

Is this animation shown irregardless of whether one has booted with
"quiet" or not?
Does it require plymouth?

Cheers,
Michael


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