On 12/03/15 20:54, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Dec 3, 2015, at 2:33 PM, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> > wrote: >> That is my main complaint about parallelized boot. My brain is only >> capable to deal with serial sequence of events, and which next event is >> deterministically predictable from previous. As with fatal things like >> kernel panic, it is the previous before the fatalstep is the one that >> you still can see... > > This has nothing to do with systemd or a parallelized boot. The kernel > panic is happening during the initial load of the kernel and initialization > of hardware. > > I know you love to blame every problem on systemd, but c’mon, this problem > is going to happen with *EVERY* init system. > No, *you* don't understand what we're saying: pre-systemd, if the o/p saw that one stmt before the panic, they could look at what the system was doing *sequentially*, and so have an idea what it was failing on. With systemd's parallelism, we have no clue, other than what it's done, and no idea what's happening that's failing. mark