https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76935#c10
----- Adding "hacks" but not testing to ensure said hacks don't cause issues:
Lennart Poettering 2014-02-21 13:49:25 UTC
To make this work we'd need a patch, as nobody of us tests this.
Comment 3 Michael Shigorin 2014-04-04 06:30:57 UTC
Hope all of you either test all the combinations or do not break at will those you don't have the time and inclination to test, at least in system-wide components that are not specific to systemd, while pushing the latter hard.
Comment 4 Lennart Poettering 2014-04-04 14:56:43 UTC
Well, cgroups-less kernels are explicitly not supported by systemd. However we added some hacks to allow it to boot to a certain degree even if a lot of things will not work correctly afterwards. In this mode when you boot you will actually get a warning on screen and bootup is delayed by 10s to make sure the user understands this.
Now, this mode recently broke, and it will segfault early on. I am happy to take a patch to 'fix' this again, but I will not work on this as i dont run kernels like this, and as mentioned its not really supported anyway...
Another option is to simply be honest amd stop supporting in entirely, and refuse booting completely. And I figure this is what I will eventually do if nobody cares enough to send me a patch to fix that segfault.
This is why I don't like to talk about systemd on any internet forum; it always leads to people like you ready to attack any position around the subject, and me having to defend a position I don't even hold (I don't think systemd sucks, I think its developers could do better though). I am done with this thread.