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, @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.