[Arm-netbook] severe systemd bugs (two of them)

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir at cohens.org.il
Mon Jul 3 18:12:18 BST 2017


I'm not going to join this pro/anti systemd discussion as it is
pointless at this point, but,

On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 04:02:23PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

>  for example, until i discovered that angband.pl actively maintains
> systemd-less debian packages for xorg, udev, pulseaudio and several
> critical pre-systemd packages (including consolekit), i was forced to
> make an extremely risky *MANUAL* removal of systemd.  that included
> REMOVING udev entirely and MANUALLY maintaining entries in /dev (!)  i
> also had to add a hundred entries into /etc/modules - some of which i
> could not determine so had to actually not have access to critical
> hardware for a considerable amount of time.

Hang on, is this for the images for the EOMA68? I figure you don't have
systemd there because the kernel is < 3.12. But no udev? Or is this for
an unrelated system?

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