[systemd-devel] Antw: [EXT] Re: "Eye Of Cylon" animation no longer garbles Ctrl-Alt-F9 emergency shell ?

[Ulrich Windl]

>>> fox <firefox at firemail.cc> schrieb am 15.10.2020 um 23:36 in Nachricht
<d65bf7395b34301370461e160b80c2d0 at firemail.cc>:
>> > It is refreshing to see that the Cylon eye is appearantly no longer
>>> making the Ctrl-Alt-F9 emergency shell unusable.
> 
> while I noted that a modified systemd is quick to install, I also should 
> point out that a compile + install from systemd sourcecode may leave old 
> version parts on harddisk.

I guess this is where package managers come in... ;-)

> On Arch / Manjaro, journald gave me errormessages from leftover 
> generators.
> 
> fix: delete all files in  /usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/
> then reinstall systemd via your distro’s package manager.
> 
> This reduced error messages in journald quite a bit here. several 
> outdated generators  could not call their libs and what not.
> On some distros other than Fedora you still might want to patch out that 
> gimmicky "Eye Of Cylon" notifier to keep the Ctrl-Alt-F9 "emergency 
> shell" clean.
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