[arch-dev-public] systemd 197 - kdm fails

[Dave Reisner]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 07:10:54PM +0100, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote:
> On 11 January 2013 18:26, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> > I'm using KDE as well, but have not been able to reproduce this
> > problem. Any chance you could get some more debug info out of it?
> > Sounds like something times out...
> 
> Console timeouts on mounting remote filesystems.
> 
> I remember I had this problem earlier which I solved by:
> systemctl disable remote-fs.target

Why would you want to do this? Just use noauto,x-systemd.automount on
your remote filesystems in fstab and they'll only be mounted on first
access.

> However, this update reenabled it for some reason. Is there a way to
> make these changes permanent?

The symlink is shipped by upstream and belongs to the systemd package.
If you're bent on disabling it, you'll need to use pacman's NoExtract.

> I have no idea why KDM starts longer than usual though. There's
> nothing unusual in any log. It seemed to me that I heard harddisk to
> be spinning more than usual when KDM is loading, but that's something
> I don't usually look for, so I may be wrong.
> 
> Lukas