[systemd-devel] failing boot start jobs delay reboot

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 20.01.15 11:24, Andrei Borzenkov (arvidjaar at gmail.com) wrote:

> >          When they occur during init they repeat during shutdown. Even when I
> > let init complete and succeed to fix the typo or oversight, the init failure
> > gets remembered and repeated at shutdown.
> 
> Yes, that's the problem. For once, traditional workflow of
> 
> - stop in emergency shell when mount fails
> - fix /etc/fstab
> - ^D to continue boot
> 
> no more works, because /etc/fstab is not reevaluated so systemd will
> still try the same broken mount again. 

Yeah, systemd will require a "systemctl daemon-reload" first. It might
be a good idea if distros would mention that in a comment in the
default fstab file they install.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat