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

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 07:26:48PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 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?
With quiet the [OK] lines are not shown, so no, it only works
without quiet.

> Does it require plymouth?
It's text based.

Zbyszek