since last update system does not boot any more

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Apr 6 16:48:17 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 17:06 +0200, Adam Pribyl wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Apr 2011, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 15:21 -0400, Richard Ryniker wrote:
> >
> >> I should think "3" presents very little problem for internationalization,
> >> whereas "multi-user.target" demands translation before it "explains
> >> itself" to non-English-speaking users.  Because these are descriptive
> >> file names, not just message text, and they are used fairly early in the
> >> boot process, I doubt translation is easy.  Feasible, certainly, but
> >> messy and therefore unlikely to happen.
> >
> > This is hardly an issue unique to systemd. Just about everything names
> > its files in English.
> 
> You are right. The problem with systemd is that those arguments are 
> filenames, but you can not use "tab" for autocompletition. ATM systemd can 
> translate "3" to multi-user.target which is OK, but in the future who 
> knows. Acctualy if I understand the concept right, maybe it is possible to 
> make symlink 3 -> multi-user.target, and it may work...

that's more or less what it does already.

[root at adam Download]# ls /lib/systemd/system/runlevel3.target -l
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 17 Apr  5
09:58 /lib/systemd/system/runlevel3.target -> multi-user.target
[root at adam Download]#

i dunno exactly where it handles 'runlevel3', but...yeah.
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