Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:59:25 +0000 (UTC) From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libinit idea Message-ID: <658811.23371.bm@smtp115.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <201402240856.s1O8u82F073645@gw.catspoiler.org>
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from Don Lewis: > I've got a Fedora server here that has systemd and I've come to dislike > it. It seems to be one of those "Do not open. No user serviceable > parts inside." sorts of things. > I was never able to get it to start NUT properly. > More often than not, it fails to come up multi-user. The machine has a > large number of disks (mostly JFS and XFS) attached to it, and even > after what I think should be a clean shutdown, it seems to want to fsck > a bunch of them. Unfortunately, there seems to be some sort of timeout > on that, so a bunch get skipped and then don't get mounted. I have to > manually fsck everything in single user mode. Then if I reboot, it > *might* come up properly. I haven't been able to find any knobs to > adjust the timeout. Sometimes, there is just a message that says > something like "an error occurred" at the top of the screen, just before > the prompt for the single-user password, with no clue as to what it is > unhappy about. > Emergency shutdown can also be a problem. If I'm around when the power > fails, I manually try to shut down the machine before the UPS battery > runs down. I don't have the screen on the UPS, so I hit the power > button and cross my fingers that the machine will make it through the > clean shutdown sequence in time. It seems to take forever (many > minutes) and I have no idea what the heck it is spending all of its time > on. > The documentation seems to be very sparse. > My plan is to migrate this function to a FreeBSD server. This looks scandalously slow. It reminds me of the time with OS/2 Warp 4 in the late 1990s when I had to close Netscape web browser in preparation for shutdown, and it took 15 minutes because it was a hog for memory, by late 1990s standards. I had 20 MB RAM, not bad for those days. What would happen if you typed at the command prompt shutdown -r now or shutdown -p now ? Would it take seemingly forever? I would like to try systemd in Linux, can't say at this stage whether I'll like it, hate it, or somewhere in between. Tomhome | help
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