systemd depends so heavily on a files it can not reboot

Adam Pribyl pribyl at lowlevel.cz
Mon Jul 8 17:15:58 UTC 2013


On Mon, 8 Jul 2013, Samuel Sieb wrote:

> On 07/08/2013 09:02 AM, Adam Pribyl wrote:
>> OK, so the systemd people say, it is perfecly fine you can not reboot
>> via ctrl-alt-del (while it was always possible with init) and give me
>
> That seems unlikely that init would have been ok...  Ctrl-alt-del 
> switched to runlevel 6, so it still depended on files in /etc to be 
> accessible, as well as the reboot executable to be intact.  I have had 
> several situations where filesystem issues blocked init from rebooting 
> using ctrl-alt-del.  In particular, if it couldn't unmount a filesystem 
> for whatever reason, it wouldn't reboot.

OK, then I was probably just lucky all those years, or it is 
just by nature of systemd having so many files, that may influence this.

Sorry to all to bother.

Adam Pribyl


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