I think PackRat as per usual is right on with this. I am facing a re-install at the least but am not comfortable with where things are, it makes little sense to me to reinstall and duplicate the issues I have (plus more) with a new system. I am in hopes I can struggle along until things settle down. Among my issues the biggest is that my 4 disk external drive is crashing my system on any attempt to use it. Hard resets are courting disaster and I am looking at two or three a day. Adding to that my system is doggy on both boot up and operation along with many of my environment settings/customizations being broken. Reading this I was reminded of something I saw over in the Aptosid forums some time ago, to wit:
In most cases the migration from sysvinit-core to systemd-sysv is supposed to be smooth and transparent, basically with the only visible effect being there less verbose startup messages (by default). Systemd is stricter when it comes to invalid fstab entries (like long forgotten swap partitions, but also other (syntax) errors are punished by systemd; sysvinit often managing to boot regardless of those is the real error here). Likewise systemd doesn't like dependency loops in system dæmons, this affects a handful of (broken) services (e.g. setserial), which declare conflicting service dependencies and might affect booting.
I could be suffering from all or none of these. Unfortunately a less verbose messaging system means exactly that, it's less verbose which in turn means you are often depending on in app documentation, etc. to decipher where the problems are. I feel a little like I brought a knife to a gun fight.
Anyway, the whole udev/gvfs handling has changed and the stricter fstab handling as well means that I am at a bit of a loss. I really need to understand exactly how the system is initializing drives at this point.
[orbea] sorry you have joined us in losing spaceFM (which for me at least meant handling external drives with ease). I am seeing a lot of things that are broken but can't look into them at present my priority has to be getting my external drive/sandbox/testing/backup environment back.
My apologies if this seems like random blathering. I have gone from light-hearted teasing on this to actually becoming concerned. I am not seeing a lot on the web on this so I am guessing this must be about my customizations and personal needs, so I guess there is that
