Tom Horsley wrote:
> I would have hoped that someone who can play with systemd
> in a sensible way might be able to suggest a solution.
But for a (possibly) useful suggesting, you might try
my technique for working around utter failures in systemd
(which always seem to have something to do with networked
services).
I make sure /etc/rc.d/rc.local is set to executable and
add lines like this to the end:
/bin/bash -c 'sleep 5 ; systemctl restart ypbind.service' > /dev/null
2>&1
< /dev/null &
That starts one of the many services that normally fails
after a 5 second delay following boot. I have a whole list
of this with increasing delay times.
Thanks for the suggestion, which I shall try out later.
For the moment, I've installed Thunderbird,
and am sending email through Tbird and reading email through KMail.
I needed a quick replacement, and forgot gmail
which also solved the problem.
For the umteenth time, I'm wondering if it is time
to give up KMail ...
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Timothy Murphy
gayleard /at/
eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin