The point here is that of all of the advocates claiming systemd skeptics are just afraid of change and that systemd is just fine as is cannot seem to come up with a solution to this problem. It's almost as if they don't actually know anything about the software they advocate...

As for solutions, I know a free one involving going back to sysvinit. I'm not going to get paid support for a test installation. If a simple problem can't be solved simply, it will just be rated not ready for prime time.

Personally I find it to be useless for my needs. Most of my searching is for tech documentation, example code, how-tos, and such. For whatever reason, Google just finds a lot more relevant material than Bing, and usually what I need is within the first 3-4 links on the results page. With Bing, I find that one often has to go through a page or two of results, skipping the obvious chaff in order to find anything relevant.

I've no idea how the two compare on non-technical searches, though.

Words just can't express the level of warm fuzzies I get with that cylon staring at me for 90 seconds each time I try to boot!

It doesn't matter which it is, what I was using before didn't have it.

But beyond that, it refuses to tell me why it isn't just doing the right thing and none of the big systemd advocates here can seem to tell me how one might fix it or work around it.

Beyond that, the thing that is hanging up shouldn't exist in the first place. It has no business caring about anything but the identified (implicitly) dependence on /dev/disk/by-label/aux. Since that is present, it should attempt the mount. Were it designed with an appropriate philosophy, the part that is causing the problem wouldn't exist at all.

The way systemd seems resistant to workarounds is a real design problem IMHO.

All I see on various mailing lists is systemd people deeply confused and at a loss as to what should be done about this and similar problems that the old init system has handled flawlessly for a very long time. That suggests that systemd is not ready for production use. If there was a decent workaround for now, that could potentially be forgiven, but I have yet to see one offered.

That is how it appears, isn't it? 'Course, when you look below the surface, you'll discover that when it comes to the truly important things - indefinite detention of Americans without charges, militarizing police, justifying the murder of innocents abroad, justifying executions of Americans without trial, etc. - D and R couldn't agree more.

But this show is about moronic roommates who can't get along, not evil, avaricious fucks draining the blood of a nation for their own personal gain... right?

That would be a good safety measure except that there's nothing to prevent the pollen from giving a neighboring crop the terminator trait.

If I was a smart guy, I'd make everyone think I'm a moron, so I could do anything I wanted and the real morons would always let it slide.

You've never heard of terminator seeds, have you?

The seeds will grow normally but the seeds from the grown plants will die upon germination.

Nobody?!?

All the systemd fans here and not one can show the skeptic how easy it all is? How much better?

Bueller?

It is a bit different. The label had been created correctly by udev in /dev/disk/by-label such that once it dropped me to the shell 'mount /aux' was all that was needed to mount the filesystem correctly. If I could just get systemd to actually try the mount command, it would be fine.

I honestly have no idea what systemd thought it was waiting for and the journal doesn't say. If it would just do what I say, it would be fine.

Is there really nowhere I can just add 'mount /aux' to make it do the right thing?

Awesome specs, looks good, cheap price. This is trés cool. I have been toying around with the idea of getting a Huawei or Asus Cheapo Tablet as a new one, but I think I'll wait until this ones out and take a look at it. Like the Jolla Phone too - but my HTC Desire HD is still holding up, so I'll pass for now.

It sounds like his decision to make on the behalf of his employer.

Everything to come out of freedesktop.org for the last year or two is like that. That's why just about every major software they produce has been forked except for pulseaudio (which is best just removed from the system).

Evidence?

I have actually looked at it and it is a massive pile of excrement. Just look at that dizzying pile of config files with non-descript names. Just look at how it auto-generates even more at boot time based on templates. That is supposed to be better?

It makes simple things obscure. It looks like it is actually easier to rip it out and put sysV back than it is to solve even the simplest issues.

All so completely co-dependent that they are an all or nothing proposition. Thus, one massive program.