Re: Now hang on, please!
if one particular service doesn't come up properly then it just logs the error. I *thought* that was one of the claimed advantages of systemd,
Well, I'm on Archlinux, and that's what mine is doing (currently several services are misconfigured due to a location move and I've not gotten around to fixing them).
If pulseaudio fails on my system, it falls back to ALSA.