Hi Helmut, thanks for taking the time to test runit
On Sun, 8 Jan 2023 07:08:36 +0100 Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de> wrote: > The biggest problem here is the lack of mount. mount is not essential > and nothing depends on it, so it goes missing. Something in the runit > ecosystem should definitely depend on mount. right > > It seems like runit requires checking the filesystem, but e2fsprogs is > not essential anymore and it fails hard. Nowadays, checking ext4 > filesystems is optional and systemd skips doing it in the absence of > e2fsprogs. This need to be adjusted in the initcripts package, as a quick fix I'm going to add a dependency on e2fsprogs too. > > So I went on to retry with e2fsprogs added and this is what I got: > > | Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ... done. > | Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ... done. > | [ 1.484294] Not activating Mandatory Access Control as [...] > | Cleaning up temporary files.... > | Cleaning up temporary files.... > | - runit: leave stage: /etc/runit/1 > | - runit: enter stage: /etc/runit/2 > | runsvchdir: default: current. > > In particular, the user has no way to log into the system as no getty > is being spawned. I see that the autopkgtest has to do this manually > via "ln -s /etc/sv/getty-ttyS0 /etc/service/". Do you think there > could be a better way to achieve this such that at least the console= > kernel command line parameter is automatically issued a getty? This one is a separate issue: true that a serial-getty is not automatically started (there are gettys on tty[1-6] for standard usage) but a getty-ttyS0 service that can be enabled and tuned to the right device exists, so I don't think that this last part is RC.. Sure there is no documentation on how to do it and anyway there is room for improvement. I've opened a separate (#1028270) bug for the "no way to login" issue above, if you disagree with the non-RC severity of #1028270 please change the severity of that one as I'm going to close this one by adding two dependency to runit-init. Best, Lorenzo > Helmut
