[Mageia-dev] [systemd] keyboard shortcut to show jobs during boot

Sat Apr 7 21:22:35 CEST 2012

in order to investigate hangs or slow boots or whatever, it would be useful to 
+have some kind of key combination that lists the current systemd jobs and 
+where it's hanging/waiting or whatever
+
+either that or detect a hang an spawn some kind of emergency login somewhere
+
+actually, if i'm really pulling out my want-to-have book, howabout a tty that 
+(until it can actually get a tty), shows an top like watch of current jobs in 
+systemd, where you can force some kind of process, ie: killing it, or letting 
+all the dependant ones go through.
+
+perhaps that could be on the tty that would eventually always become a tty (as 
+i remember we talked about)
+
+let's say that tty12 gets the kernel logging, then tty11 could show first 
+dracut/udev stuff, then proceed with systemd jobs, and when it can get a tty, 
+to be reserved for tty. (all the others could be reserved for graphicals then)
+
+that way, no matter what happens, you get some nice info/tty availability.
+
+
+ok, give all this nice-to-have...
+
+is there a way we can find out why a boot hangs? is there some logging we can 
+check in a rescue or ...?
+