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

[Michael Biebl]

2014/1/24 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek at in.waw.pl>:
> 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.

Hm, I think those messages should always be shown so the user has a
chance to know what's going on.

IIRC most distros today enable "quiet" by default.


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