[systemd-devel] Antw: Startup single step

[Ulrich Windl]

>>> Jay Burger <jay.burger at us.fujitsu.com> schrieb am 02.07.2019 um 19:30 in
Nachricht <ad2e9439-dbb4-4d82-c959-f1daadc8bf86 at us.fujitsu.com>:
> Hi,
> 
> I am curious if there is a way to single step through the systemd startup
> of services? I don't find any such feature and am curious what others would
> think of it. We had a similar feature in a previous life, different OS, and 
> developers seemed
> to like it. I personally think it was a handy tool to have in the arsenal, 
> probably not
> a "use it all the time" kind of thing.

My guess is that you actually do not want to single-step systemd, but instead you want to see what goes wrong and maybe ignore some of such failures and continue as if there was no error. Most useful during boots. See my previous message about user frustration and systemd's bad reputation...

> 
> It could be triggered via a kernel command line option and in it's simplest 
> form, systemd
> would start a service and prompt the user before continuing to the next. I 
> know 
> this would
> change timing and dependencies may have issues but just throwing out the 
> idea.
> 
> This could possibly even be used to single step through the shutdown of 
> services.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your attention,
> 
> -Jay
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