[arch-general] libsystemd to systemd

[Kevin Chadwick]

> > On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 13:51 +0200, Damjan Georgievski wrote:  
> > > And this is yet another example how initscripts are broken.
> > > I had a friend whose GDM was not coming up because it
> > > was starting too fast after dbus. As a last resort we rearranged
> > > the DAEMONS and moved gdm as the last daemon (after NM etc)
> > > and it magically started to work.

Isn't it more likely that dbus and GDM are broken and it should be
started last anyway, there's no magic.

> > I use GDM too, but it's not in the DAEMONS list.
> > 
> > [root at archlinux spinymouse]# grep DAEMONS /etc/rc.conf
> > # DAEMONS
> > DAEMONS=(69switch_xorg.conf hwclock syslog-ng !network !netfs crond
> > acpid dbus networkmanager rtirq)
> > [root at archlinux spinymouse]# pacman -Qi gdm
> > Name           : gdm
> > Version        : 3.4.1-3
> > 
> > *?*  
> 
> You probably use the inittab method
> 
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Display_Manager#inittab_method

Will this be an issue for him if he switches to full systemd as it has
removed inittab (the one piece of init that all Linux distros had in
common).

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