Am Dienstag, dem 12.08.2025 um 11:02 +0300 schrieb Andrei Borzenkov: > > I spent some time trying to understand why a service that should have > been started was not. It turned out rather simple - the service was > WantedBy=default.target, I explicitly used "3" on the kernel command > line and this made systemd to ignore > /etc/systemd/system/default.target.wants. > > Is there any reason to *not* treat systemd.unit as default in this > case? After all, "default target" is the target that systemd starts > when running as /sbin/init and passing systemd.unit is entirely > equivalent to overriding default.target once at run-time.
Hi Andrei, `3` on the k-c-l means "isolate into multi-user.target", not "make the multi-user.target the default.target" or "isolate into default.target". So your `default.target` was never started. If you want *default* behaviour, don't specify anything. BR Silvio
