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by arp242 1962 days ago
It's fine when it works, but it's very hard to solve problems when they happen as it's so complex, and doing stuff outside of "the standard thing" can be difficult.

I once had "systemctl restart unbound" reset my volume, consistently. How do you even start debugging something like that without a deep dive in systemd? This particular issue turned out to be a systemd bug, and that such a bug can exist in the first place didn't exactly increase my confidence in the system.

In another case I couldn't get my NFS to work at all, and it turned out that rpcbind.service somehow went missing. Not sure how that happened and it's a simple enough problem, but it was really non-obvious because systemd doesn't issue clear errors on this and the system is so complex it's not easy to spot either.

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> I once had "systemctl restart unbound" reset my volume

That's fascinating, do you have more information on this particular bug?