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systemd(ont) (www.arscyni.cc)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by arsCynic@piefed.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Because of the ubiquity, nay, monopoly of systemd I always assumed it was miles ahead of other init systems. Nope. I've been using a non-systemd environment for a while and must say I'm surprised by how little breaks, i.e., next to nothing. Moreover, boot and shutdown times are faster, and more of that good stuff. I suggest trying it out.

https://nosystemd.org/.

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[-] Archr@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

If you are having those issues with booting maybe it is because you configured your network share incorrectly? If you are waiting on shutdown timeouts for something then just go edit the timeout. systemctl edit <stuck thing>.

Typically when I crawl through journald it is to diagnose a problem with a specific application. Actually, the fact that those logs are easily accessible in a centralized place with easy to understand commands to access them is a reason why systemd (or more specifically systemd-journald) is so great.

The only times that I have had major issues like that was either because (A) I misconfigured something or (B) a package came misconfigured.

[-] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 2 points 1 day ago

It is exactly configured as default.

[-] Archr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Strange I guess I am not aware of any distros that come with network drives pre-configured. But either way that would be a configuration error on the distro's side then. Waiting for a network share to be available is actually a feature to many.

Say for instance you had critical data on the network share then you might not want to boot if that is not available. And if you don't then you might mark the share as nobootwait.

Without knowing what the configuration on this specific drive you are having trouble with I really could not say what is wrong.

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