Re: How to make systemd more reliable

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Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-10-12 Thread Allan Duncan via luv-main
On 12/10/16 13:48, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 10:42:03AM +1100, Allan Duncan wrote: On my todo list. It happens when I boot after failing to alter fstab to match the actual disks connected. it seems to happen at the slightest excuse, whether the machine ends up

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-10-11 Thread Russell Coker via luv-main
On Wednesday, 12 October 2016 4:03:27 PM AEDT Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: > > The failure modes of SSD are quite different to the failure modes > > of spinning media. I expect it will be some years before there is > > adequate research into how SSDs fail and some more years before > >

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-10-11 Thread Craig Sanders via luv-main
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 03:35:34PM +1100, russ...@coker.com.au wrote: > On Wednesday, 12 October 2016 2:46:01 PM AEDT Craig Sanders via luv-main > wrote: > > yes, but you can't pipe `btrfs send` to `zfs recv` and expect to get > > anything useful. my backup pool is zfs. > > In the early days the

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-10-11 Thread Russell Coker via luv-main
On Wednesday, 12 October 2016 2:46:01 PM AEDT Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: > yes, but you can't pipe `btrfs send` to `zfs recv` and expect to get > anything useful. my backup pool is zfs. In the early days the plan was to have btrfs receive not rely on BTRFS, so you could send a snapshot

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-10-11 Thread Craig Sanders via luv-main
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:18:40AM +1100, russ...@coker.com.au wrote: > On Wednesday, 12 October 2016 1:31:33 AM AEDT Craig Sanders via luv-main > wrote: > > the only time i've ever seen something similar was my own stupid > > fault, i rebooted and just pulled out the old SSD forgetting that I >

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-10-11 Thread Craig Sanders via luv-main
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 10:42:03AM +1100, Allan Duncan wrote: > On my todo list. It happens when I boot after failing to alter fstab > to match the actual disks connected. it seems to happen at the slightest excuse, whether the machine ends up booting or not. just what everyone needs, one or

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-10-11 Thread Russell Coker via luv-main
On Wednesday, 12 October 2016 1:31:33 AM AEDT Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: > the only time i've ever seen something similar was my own stupid fault, > i rebooted and just pulled out the old SSD forgetting that I had ZIL > and L2ARC for the pools on that SSD. I had to plug the old SSD back

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-10-11 Thread Allan Duncan via luv-main
On 12/10/16 10:42, Allan Duncan via luv-main wrote: On 12/10/16 01:31, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: ... it's really annoying to have to wait and watch those damn stars when you just wnat to get a shell and start investigating & fixing whatever's gone wrong. There should be an easy and

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-10-11 Thread Allan Duncan via luv-main
On 12/10/16 01:31, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: ... it's really annoying to have to wait and watch those damn stars when you just wnat to get a shell and start investigating & fixing whatever's gone wrong. There should be an easy and obvious way to display those binary logs from the

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-10-11 Thread Clinton Roy via luv-main
> > There should be an easy and obvious way to display those binary logs > > from the system when it's not running systemd or from another system > > (IE logs copied from another system). > > After scp'ing the logs to the remote machine: journalctl --file copied.log works, assuming it hasn't

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-10-11 Thread Craig Sanders via luv-main
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 11:13:34PM +1100, russ...@coker.com.au wrote: > On Tuesday, 11 October 2016 10:30:01 PM AEDT Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: > > I was rebooting anyway in order to replace a failed SSD on one > > machine and convert both of them to root on ZFS. It booted up OK on > >

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-10-11 Thread Erik Christiansen via luv-main
On 11.10.16 23:09, Russell Coker wrote: > On Tuesday, 11 October 2016 10:49:29 PM AEDT Erik Christiansen via luv-main > wrote: > > That attempted diversion doesn't fix systemd. As ConsoleKit is no longer > > supported, it's irrelevant history - a poor diversion from what you're > > failing to

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-10-11 Thread Erik Christiansen via luv-main
On 11.10.16 22:30, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 08:14:29PM +1100, luv-main@luv.asn.au wrote: > > > > +1 > > -1, actually. > > I mostly gave in. I converted two of my home systems to systemd a few days ago > (including my primary desktop/server machine). I'm hoping

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-10-11 Thread Russell Coker via luv-main
On Tuesday, 11 October 2016 10:30:01 PM AEDT Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: > I was rebooting anyway in order to replace a failed SSD on one machine and > convert both of them to root on ZFS. It booted up OK on both, so I made it > the default. If it refrains from sucking badly enough to

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-10-11 Thread Russell Coker via luv-main
On Tuesday, 11 October 2016 10:49:29 PM AEDT Erik Christiansen via luv-main wrote: > That attempted diversion doesn't fix systemd. As ConsoleKit is no longer > supported, it's irrelevant history - a poor diversion from what you're > failing to rationally defend. It's no longer supported because

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-10-11 Thread Craig Sanders via luv-main
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 09:29:37PM +1100, russ...@coker.com.au wrote: > On Tuesday, 11 October 2016 8:14:29 PM AEDT Erik Christiansen via luv-main > wrote: > > (Though I'm not sure that systemd's rapacious appetite for > > monolithic hegemony does a lot more than stultify its own > > development.

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-10-11 Thread Erik Christiansen via luv-main
On 11.10.16 21:29, Russell Coker wrote: > On Tuesday, 11 October 2016 8:14:29 PM AEDT Erik Christiansen via luv-main > wrote: > > (Though I'm not sure that systemd's rapacious appetite for monolithic > > hegemony does a lot more than stultify its own development. In any > > ecological niche, more

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-10-11 Thread Allan Duncan via luv-main
On 11/10/16 20:14, Erik Christiansen via luv-main wrote: ... The coming and passing of systemd will in hindsight be seen as a storm in a teacup, I suspect. (Not comparable with the couple of hours after noon on Sunday, here in the Dandenongs. From my windows I saw three 1m diameter Redgum

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-10-11 Thread Craig Sanders via luv-main
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 08:14:29PM +1100, luv-main@luv.asn.au wrote: > On 01.10.16 01:34, Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: > > anyway, systemd's borging of every function it possibly can will > > inevitably lead to the death of innovation in linux and bring about > > a software monoculture

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-10-11 Thread Russell Coker via luv-main
On Tuesday, 11 October 2016 8:14:29 PM AEDT Erik Christiansen via luv-main wrote: > (Though I'm not sure that systemd's rapacious appetite for monolithic > hegemony does a lot more than stultify its own development. In any > ecological niche, more agile competitors will tend to gain ascendancy. I

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-10-05 Thread Peter Ross via luv-main
Hi all, Rick Moen wrote > At least some in the Debian community are particularly annoyed by > the systemd team's unwillingness to take patches for portability > to kernels beyond Linux. That led Adam Borowski to jokingly dismiss > OpenRC because it lacks "a hostile upstream". > >

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-10-02 Thread Rick Moen via luv-main
Quoting Craig Sanders (c...@taz.net.au): [init systems:] > the majority had no say in it, and probably aren't capable of switching > to something else if systemd doesn't meet their needs. They can follow recipes, though. There's a continuum from people who can fully maintain software through

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-10-02 Thread Craig Sanders via luv-main
[edited to put the interesting stuff at the top, and the boring stuff at the bottom where it's easily ignored.] On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 08:05:31PM +1000, russ...@coker.com.au wrote: > Bash is still quite a bit bigger than busybox and links with a couple > of libraries that busybox doesn't link

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-10-01 Thread Rick Moen via luv-main
Quoting russ...@coker.com.au (russ...@coker.com.au): > I don't approve content-free hate comments. There were no comments about > actual issues so none were approved. I believe you, of course. Yeah, that's genuinely weird. I really have no idea why a bunch of deplorable types (sorry, joke

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-10-01 Thread Russell Coker via luv-main
On Friday, 30 September 2016 11:04:03 AM AEST Rick Moen via luv-main wrote: > > https://etbe.coker.com.au/2015/01/13/systemd-notes/ > > > > No, I'm referring to the above blog post which was linked from the anti- > > systemd-people post. > > Then, I'm no wiser, since no comments are displayed

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-10-01 Thread Russell Coker via luv-main
On Saturday, 1 October 2016 2:09:58 AM AEST Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 02:38:54PM +1000, russ...@coker.com.au wrote: > > > I'm sure you're aware that this variety of rhetoric suffers a rather > > > serious 'if so, so what?' problem (residing somewhere among the > >

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-09-30 Thread Rick Moen via luv-main
Quoting russ...@coker.com.au (russ...@coker.com.au): > Yet occasionally people do such things. I see you're back to ignoring my point. Ah well. > > Also, poorly socialised nerds don't perceive NSA as taking their toys > > away the way (e.g.) entitlement-crazed debian-user subscribers do when >

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-09-30 Thread Craig Sanders via luv-main
On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 02:38:54PM +1000, russ...@coker.com.au wrote: > > I'm sure you're aware that this variety of rhetoric suffers a rather > > serious 'if so, so what?' problem (residing somewhere among the > > It's "if so don't deal with those people" as so many people have done. > There are

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-09-30 Thread Craig Sanders via luv-main
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 06:14:49PM +1000, russ...@coker.com.au wrote: > On Thursday, 29 September 2016 3:20:37 PM AEST Paul van den Bergen via > luv-main wrote: > > > I'm going to be critical here - it is rare that you have personal choice > > over the tools your system uses. i haven't found it

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-09-30 Thread Russell Coker via luv-main
On Friday, 30 September 2016 1:50:14 AM AEST Rick Moen via luv-main wrote: > > Why systemd out of all the things that I have blogged about? > > Give me a few milion AUS$, and I'll do a proper sociological study. > Short of that, I can speculate: > > Being angry at SE-Linux maintainers would be

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-09-30 Thread Rick Moen via luv-main
Quoting russ...@coker.com.au (russ...@coker.com.au): > More complex things have been done in Debian before. Getting the full GNOME > functionality without systemd might not be possible, but getting the > functionality that most people want (IE what has been commonly available > before

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-09-30 Thread Russell Coker via luv-main
On Thursday, 29 September 2016 11:11:22 PM AEST Rick Moen via luv-main wrote: > (I note with appreciation your having addressed this very point in your > blog post: 'The sensible option would be to just maintain a separate > repository of modified packages as has been done many times before.' I

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-09-30 Thread Rick Moen via luv-main
Quoting russ...@coker.com.au (russ...@coker.com.au): > Yes, you can do that. It's much easier than creating a new web site > for a new "distribution" which seems to be Debian with a few packages > changed. Indeed, some of the Devuan people were rather upset with me. ;-> (A bunch of them had

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-09-29 Thread Russell Coker via luv-main
On Friday, 30 September 2016 2:54:42 PM AEST Ray via luv-main wrote: > Many thanks for an excellent summing up, I was going to put forward a > response but your reply has covered all my points nicely. One thing > though I will say is I was quite disturbed about the level of hostility > in

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-09-29 Thread Ray via luv-main
On 30.09.2016 13:26, Rick Moen via luv-main wrote: Quoting russ...@coker.com.au (russ...@coker.com.au): People who have chosen systemd have spent a lot of time making it work better and solving some real problems that other init systems have had for many years. People who want to choose

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-09-29 Thread Rick Moen via luv-main
Quoting russ...@coker.com.au (russ...@coker.com.au): > People who have chosen systemd have spent a lot of time making it work better > and solving some real problems that other init systems have had for many > years. People who want to choose SysVInit have spent a lot of time flaming > people

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-09-29 Thread Allan Duncan via luv-main
On 30/09/16 08:29, Chris Samuel via luv-main wrote: On Thursday, 29 September 2016 5:00:39 PM AEST Andrew Pam wrote: I miss TECO. Oh no, wait, no I don't. Grin, I think I missed that one, instead having to use FRED on a Honeywell L66 running GCOS-3 (from memory). That was a pure line

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-09-29 Thread Chris Samuel via luv-main
On Thursday, 29 September 2016 5:00:39 PM AEST Andrew Pam wrote: > I miss TECO. Oh no, wait, no I don't. Grin, I think I missed that one, instead having to use FRED on a Honeywell L66 running GCOS-3 (from memory). That was a pure line editor, because the L66 only had a line input mode as

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-09-29 Thread Russell Coker via luv-main
On Thursday, 29 September 2016 3:20:37 PM AEST Paul van den Bergen via luv- main wrote: > Fanbois huh? vi or emacs? > > I'm going to be critical here - it is rare that you have personal choice > over the tools your system uses. Do the job in front of you. If that means > you support windows ME

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-09-29 Thread Andrew Pam via luv-main
On 29/09/16 17:12, Rick Moen via luv-main wrote: On 29/09/16 16:12, Rick Moen via luv-main wrote: But what does your _name_ do in TECO? ;-> It makes me glad emacs and vi were created! :P Cheers, Andrew ___ luv-main mailing list

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-09-29 Thread Rick Moen via luv-main
Quoting Andrew Pam (and...@sericyb.com.au): > On 29/09/16 16:12, Rick Moen via luv-main wrote: > >ftp://linuxmafia.com/pub/humour/ed-is-the-standard-text-editor > > I miss TECO. Oh no, wait, no I don't. > > Cheers, > Andrew {laughs} But what does your _name_ do in TECO? ;-> (I

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-09-29 Thread Andrew Pam via luv-main
On 29/09/16 16:12, Rick Moen via luv-main wrote: ftp://linuxmafia.com/pub/humour/ed-is-the-standard-text-editor I miss TECO. Oh no, wait, no I don't. Cheers, Andrew ___ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-09-29 Thread Rick Moen via luv-main
Quoting Paul van den Bergen (paul.vandenber...@gmail.com): > Fanbois huh? vi or emacs? ftp://linuxmafia.com/pub/humour/ed-is-the-standard-text-editor (For some reason, many Yanks cannot seem to locate my humour directory. I blame the education system -- lamentable problems spelling the

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-09-28 Thread Paul van den Bergen via luv-main
Fanbois huh? vi or emacs? I'm going to be critical here - it is rare that you have personal choice over the tools your system uses. Do the job in front of you. If that means you support windows ME as a security portal(!), that's what you do... at least until you find a better job. On Thu, Sep

Re: How to make systemd more reliable

2016-09-28 Thread Russell Coker via luv-main
On Thursday, 29 September 2016 11:08:00 AM AEST Tim Connors via luv-main wrote: > Stop using it! And that part is easy, just run > > NOTIFY_SOCKET=/run/systemd/notify systemd-notify "" > > in a while 1 loop as an ordinary user. > >