Yay Jessie ! Urrggh systemd

Jessie has just been released 2 days ago, time for some apt-get dist-upgrade and rejoice in all the sweet new features.

Except…

Except there’s a hitch, called Systemd. The Releases Notes’s biggest section is all about how the move to systemd will crush your soul if you don’t pay close attention. This just says how big a thing this is, and how careful you’ll have to be to maintain your sanity.

This will mainly be a rant post to help with anger management.

Install Systemd, lose your system.

• Have a mount point in /etc/fstab that’s auto and not nofail ? Say bye to your server, systemd will bail out and stop starting services. No ssh no fun. I like how Debian people say “We need to sort this out before the release” … and leave as an open bug for 6 months.