A Debian user has recently discovered that systemd prevents the skipping of fsck while booting:
With init, skipping a scheduled fsck during boot was easy, you just pressed Ctrl+c, it was obvious! Today I was late for an online conference. I got home, turned on my computer, and systemd decided it was time to run fsck on my 1TB hard drive. Ok, I just skip it, right? Well, Ctrl+c does not work, ESC does not work, nothing seems to work. I Googled for an answer on my phone but nothing. So, is there a mysterious set of commands they came up with to skip an fsck or is it yet another flaw?
One user chimed in with a hack to work around the flaw, but it involved specifying an argument on the kernel command line. Another user described this so-called "fix" as being "Pretty damn inconvenient and un-discoverable", while yet another pointed out that the "fix" merely prevents "systemd from running fsck in the first place", and it "does not let you cancel a systemd-initiated boot-time fsck which is already in progress."
Further investigation showed that this is a known bug with systemd that was first reported in mid-2011, and remains unfixed as of late December 2014. At least one other user has also fallen victim to this bug.
How could a severe bug of this nature even happen in the first place? How can it remain unfixed over three years after it was first reported?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 21 2014, @03:14AM
Give me the neckbeards over the hipsters any day! While the neckbeards treated us like total shit, at least their software worked well. The hipsters who've taken over? They treat us like total shit, but their software (Firefox, GNOME 3, systemd, and modern Debian, I'm looking at you!) doesn't fucking work, either.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 21 2014, @10:04AM
I never really got what it was about, but just figured out that the relatively recent "neckbeard" insult is the hipsters talking about me.
hmmph. talking shit about K&R gurus as they try to climb whatever ladder they're trying to climb.
pricks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 21 2014, @02:31PM
K, R, and some of their contemporaries weren't "neckbeards". They were "pioneers", who had well-groomed beards.
The "neckbeard" insult came about in the 1980s, when fat slobs with unkempt beards started running widely-used UNIX systems at colleges and businesses. These people were total shitbags, who instead of helping users would often act all high-and-mighty and play "God". They were also known for having unusually small penises, hence the grasping for power in any way they could.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 21 2014, @04:42PM
https://i.imgur.com/QWkbh.jpg [imgur.com]
UNIX beards - required for POSIX.1 compliance.