Re: Antw: [EXT] [systemd???devel] starting networking from within single user mode?

[Michael Biebl <mbiebl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, can we please block this Ulrich Windl guy.
He's been more of a nuisance than a benefit to this community.

Am Mo., 14. Nov. 2022 um 09:17 Uhr schrieb Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity@xxxxxxxxx>:
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> On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 9:00 AM Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> >>> Mantas Mikulenas <grawity@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb am 11.11.2022 um 15:49 in
>> Nachricht
>> <CAPWNY8Xz-N6S_JwkCsr+wK7Tu92LQw+U0DCp8NbKinrTF7zXWQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> > On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 4:19 PM Brian Reichert <reichert@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> >> On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 08:02:00AM +0100, Ulrich Windl wrote:
>> >> > >>> Brian Reichert <reichert@xxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb am 10.11.2022 um
>> >> 23:04 in
>> >> > Nachricht <20221110220426.GA17371@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> >> > > I've managed to hose a SLES12 SP5 host; it starts to boot, then hangs.
>> >> >
>> >> > And what did you do to mess it up? And what do the boot messages say?
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>> >> A good question, and not specific to systemd, so I don't want to
>> >> pollute the list archives too much on this matter.
>> >>
>> >> 'All' I did was remove many RPMs that I arbitrarily deemed
>> >> unnecessary.
>> >>
>> >> I came up with a heavily trimmed-down list of SLES RPM for my SLES12
>> >> Sp5 environment.
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>> >> I successfully installed a server using just that trimmed-down list;
>> >> yay me!
>> >>
>> >> I then explored 'upgrading' a running (slight older) SP5 box, using
>> >> this trimmed-down list.  A purposeful side effect was to uninstall
>> >> RPMs not in that trimmed-down list.
>> >>
>> >> This latter box begins to boot, and gets at least as far as loading
>> >> the initrd image, before hanging.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Boot with "systemd.debug-shell" and use tty9 to investigate from the inside.
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>> Wow! never heard of that option. Is that a kind of target, or what is the mechanism?
>> Which of the 196 (man -k systemd | wc -l) systemd-related manual pages would describe it? ;-)
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> The more I read your smartass sarcastic comments here, the less I feel like staying on this list and helping *other* people with finding stuff in those 196 systemd-related manual pages. But I suppose that's what you want to achieve, so that you can snark even more about how "systemd is so complex that nobody's bothering to reply to the list anymore"?
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> For those who have *actually* never heard of that option, it is documented in systemd-debug-generator(8).
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> --
> Mantas Mikulėnas