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List:       systemd-devel
Subject:    [systemd-devel] [systemd-commits] 12 commits - src/core src/shared
From:       gmane () colin ! guthr ! ie (Colin Guthrie)
Date:       2013-02-28 10:00:11
Message-ID: 512F2AAB.2070005 () colin ! guthr ! ie
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'Twas brillig, and Andrey Borzenkov at 28/02/13 03:10 did gyre and gimble:
> ? Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:27:16 -0800 (PST)
> michich at kemper.freedesktop.org (Michal Schmidt) ?????:
> 
>> New commits:
>> commit 03b717a3c4f9348807fc56e7a7d711d72d4ec0cb
>> Author: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt at redhat.com>
>> Date:   Thu Feb 28 00:03:22 2013 +0100
>>
>>     core/manager: print status messages about running jobs
>>     
>>     Sometimes the boot gets stuck until a timeout hits. The usual timeouts
>>     are on the order of minutes, so users may lose patience.
>>     
>>     Print animated status messages telling the names of units with running
>>     jobs to make it easy to see what systemd is waiting for.
>>     
>>     The animation looks cooler with a shorter interval, but 1 s is OK and
>>     should not be too hard on slow serial console users.
>>
> 
> That's really cool and fixes one of the most frequent complaints about
> systemd from end-users - lack of information when something goes
> wrong during boot.

Yup, very nice indeed :)

> How does it integrate with Plymouth? IThat most users will have it and
> not plain console. 

Good question :)

Col

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