Run a script on first boot after install in 16.04

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 22 14:09:47 UTC 2016


On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 July 2016 at 15:23, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> IIRC, the red dot is called "Eye of Cylon" (see Battlestar Galactica)
>> but I've only ever seen it at shutdown. Is your system shutting down
>> at that point?
>
> I've recently upgraded 2 Ubuntu installations to 16.04, installed 2 or
> 3 new ones, and installed a new instance of Fedora. All of them have,
> at some point, displayed a systemd message while starting up that it
> was waiting for something and shown this "eye of Cylon".
>
> It is very definitely, absolutely, _not_ something that only appears
> at shutdown.

Thanks. I've luckily (and unfortunately!) only encountered it at shutdown.




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