Bug#785525: systemd fails to boot if non-essential block device is missing

Sun May 17 14:36:17 BST 2015

On 17 mai 2015, at 15:32, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:

> Am 17.05.2015 um 14:59 schrieb Thibaut Varène:
>> A footnote in the release/upgrade instructions would have been nice. If that machine had been remote without OOB access, I'd have been screwed over, because something that never broke previous upgrades.
> 
> It would have been nice if people actually read the release notes:
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#systemd-auto-mounts-incompat

Indeed, my bad. I focused on Chapter 4 and blazed through Chapter 5 a bit too fast it seems. I suppose I have only myself to blame. The more I read it the more I think systemd is not for me.

T.