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You must have a machine built for it, since I've had tons and tons of niggling little issues with systemd. Random, unnamed services sometimes fail to start or s
by bpchaps 10y ago
You must have a machine built for it, since I've had tons and tons of niggling little issues with systemd. Random, unnamed services sometimes fail to start or shutdown. One of systemd's big claim to awesomeness is that the start scripts run simultaneously, yet that's all thrown out the window when "Attempting to start, attempt 55 1m30s remaining" bullshit happens constantly and randomly, without enough information to debug properly.
The troubleshooting is ridiculous, too, because of the ridiculousness that comes with journald. Why does it feel the need to make me run an awfully formatted, and potentially complex set of parameters to print that? Especially considering that 9/10 times, the error message from journald is vague, ungreppable without -A or -B, and is often significantly shorter than the "use journald to print the error" output. So frustrating. I don't know how people deal with it.
That said, I'm not a fan of sysvinit, either, but I don't have to deal with as much smoke and mirror behavior with it.
- chris_wot 10y agoTry installing syslogd then in journald.conf you just change storage to 1 and ForwardToSyslog to 1. That should hopefully get your old text based logs back.