On 17/08/2012 5:47 AM, Thomas Rand wrote:
Thank you for starting a thread that (crosses fingers) will stay rant free & intelligent.
After reading all the who-har in the other's I decided to install systemd on my lappy & TBH was very pleased with the result. That being that the install itself was hassle free & the configuration was bizarrely intuitive & easy, I had a small issue that lightdm-unity-greeter was not starting, so I made a note of the error given & checked the .service, .device, .target files & was astounded to see seriously plain text to the point where I followed through the process systemd took & worked out the problem reboot & bingo I fixed it without even looking on the web!
I also decided I should install systemd on my laptop last night. (At a time when I didn't actually have much time to work on it, because that's the kind of guy I am ;) ). I agree that the install itself was very easy, and with the recent rc.conf changes there was very little else to configure except to setup the starting services. I did hit a couple issues: Arch doesn't ship with units for all the daemons I use. I was able to copy the mysqld instructions out of the wiki, but my attempt at getting timidity working on my own failed. (Again, I suspect I will be able to get it working, but I was doing things quickly.) The other issue I hit was that it didn't like one of my fstab entries, for a loop back file system in my home partition that I use to fake a small drive for one of my old wine games. This error caused it to boot to a root console where I could see the file system in error. I haven't yet tried to debug the line, but once I commented it out I was able to boot my system. Stephen E. Baker [snip]
Again thanks for a sane thread :)
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