[systemd-devel] CAD often useless

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 01:31:38PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> This isn't the first time or the only system. This particular one is an old
> Athlon booted to F22 just updated last night. In order to try some follow-up
> on a bug, I booted with drm.debug=14 log_buf_len=16M on cmdline. Somehow
> after exiting IceWM back into KDM, the system quit responding. After some
> waiting, I was switched to a tty full of systemd-journal failed to write
> readonly filesystem messages. How the system got / into a readonly state I
> have no idea, but my complaint is $SUBJECT, the time it takes, or the
> complete failure, trying to reboot when there is a problem, often seeing
> failed to store sound card state or failing boot *start* jobs. Why has
> rebooting to get out of trouble gotten to be so nearly impossible?
Did you try to press CAD more than 7 times within 2s? This should
result in immedate reboot.

Zbyszek