Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Systemd

[Mick]

On Saturday, 4 November 2017 19:23:40 GMT Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote:
> > On 04/11/17 18:15, siefke_listen@×××.de wrote:
> >> I have a short question to systemd. I would like to ask your experience
> >> in the changeover. Was it easy? Were there problems?
> >> Change or reinstall? What mean the profis here?
> >
> > I did both. Changed one system to systemd, re-installed one from scratch
> > with systemd.
> >
> > Both worked. The only problem I have with systemd is that it's unable to
> > reliably restore the ALSA mixer volumes/settings on startup. It fails 50%
> > of the time. Which is very annoying, but not the end of the world.
>
> Out of curiosity - are you using alsa-state or alsa-restore?
> Apparently alsa provides two different ways of preserving state.  You
> might consider switching them (which is triggered by the existence of
> /etc/alsa/state-daemon.conf - but it might have some other
> requirements which I didn't bother to check on).

I am using alsasound as a boot service, but in openrc - see below.


> I've seen similar issues with iptables-restore.  To be fair those are
> rare and I've also seen issues with that under openrc.

I have the same issue on one of my Gentoo systems, but I use openrc.  It seems 
to me this is occurring some times only, because the system is trying to read 
/usr when it has not yet been fully mounted, but I'm not sure.

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Regards,
Mick