[systemd-devel] failing boot start jobs delay reboot

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 19.01.15 17:59, Felix Miata (mrmazda at earthlink.net) wrote:

> Has anything been done in more recent releases about this? I do a lot of
> cloning, and sometimes produce typos on grub cmdlines and fstab lines. This
> produces long delays in init followed by emergency mode when the
> non-essential mount fails and fstab for that device does not include the
> nofail option. When I recognize early in init that I have made a fstab typo,
> I try to CAD to choose another boot choice that isn't broken and fix the
> typo, but that produces yet another start job wait for the same broken job,
> often followed by a gazillion failed to save sound card state messages from
> holding down CAD.
> 
> openSUSEes, Mageias & Fedoras (including Factories, Cauldrons & Rawhides)
> comprise most of my installations subject to these self-inflicted delays that
> I can't recall being a problem with sysvinit.

Hmm, so there has been a long-standing TODO list item to show some job
data when C-a-d is pressed 3 times within 1s, and reboot the machine
immediately on 3 times within 10s or so.  I figure that would already
make you happy?

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat