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Ubuntu 15.04 Released, First Version To Feature systemd
jones_supa writes: The final release of Ubuntu 15.04 is now available. A modest set of improvements are rolling out with this spring's Ubuntu. While this means the OS can't rival the heavy changelogs of releases past, the adage "don't fix what isn't broken" is clearly one 15.04 plays to. The headline change is systemd being featured first time in a stable Ubuntu release, which replaces the inhouse UpStart init system. The Unity desktop version 7.3 receives a handful of small refinements, most of which aim to either fix bugs or correct earlier missteps (for example, application menus can now be set to be always visible). The Linux version is 3.19.3 further patched by Canonical. As usual, the distro comes with fresh versions of various familiar applications.
Nice attempt to blame the victim. Poettering works for Red Hat, and it is still a bug with the version of systemd he ships with the newest version of Red Hat. Maybe it is fixed in some alpha version that no one uses, but in the real world, the journal is useless since it doesn't log stderr and often drops syslog messages.
It is trivial to reproduce this serious problem with systemd. Pick any script in /usr/lib/systemd/*.service:
# append --broken to ExecStart line
vi
systemctl stop named
systemctl start named
Notice that the exit status from the start is 0. That is broken.
Also, look at the journal using "journalctl -u named" to see that the output doesn't log the expected error "named: unknown option '--'". It is not logged. That makes it very difficult to find the problem with the startup script.
It is obvious that Poettering simply doesn't grasp how important stderr and exit statuses are for those of us that manage servers. He comes from the background of an end-user that cares about things like sound cards. That is why he has spent so much of his career working with sound cards. Start-up scripts are something that he obviously doesn't understand.
Another moderation that demonstrates the insanity of the anti-systemd trolls.
Even if you hate systemd for valid reasons, what kind of moron is going to mod up a comment that is a straight out lie just because it is anti-systemd?
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