[RndTbl] another systemd gotcha

Adam Thompson athompso at athompso.net
Fri May 15 01:04:09 CDT 2015


sooo... don't remove /bin/plymouth (say, by uninstalling the "plymouth" 
package) and still expect your system to boot.
Oh yeah, there's no warning when you removed the plymouth package a week 
or two ago.
And there's nothing on screen to indicate what the problem might be, you 
*must* have a root password set (sorry, Debian and Ubuntu users who 
didn't do that) in order to log into safe mode, run "journalctl -xb" and 
see the error where being unable to execute /bin/plymouth is a FATAL error.

Yup, this systemd thing sure makes booting my systems a lot faster... 
*&^%$#@!

(And if anyone noticed that the new MUUG mirror server was down for a 
while tonight, systemd is the culprit.  It also doesn't like filesystems 
that take more than a few seconds to mount and/or fsck.  Which would not 
include a 40TB XFS LVM volume. *&^%$#@! again.)

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