On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Joseph <syscon...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/05/14 13:06, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Joseph <syscon...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> [ humongous snip ] >> >>>> 4. Using systemd is more than just emerging it; you need to change >>>> your init= line in grub-legacy or GRUB2 and reboot. The contents of >>>> /proc/1/comm is "systemd"? >>> >>> >>> I only have this: >>> cat /proc/1/comm >>> init >> >> >> [ snip ] >> >>> systemctl --all --full >>> Failed to get D-Bus connection: No connection to service manager. >>> >>> loginctl >>> Failed to issue method call: Launch helper exited with unknown return >>> code 1 >> >> >> Joseph, you are not running systemd. You have systemd *installed*, but >> you are still *running* OpenRC. Therefore, your system is obviously >> going to fail, since at least some parts of it believe you are running >> systemd when you are not. >> >> If you use GRUB, you need to change its config file and add the >> following to your kernel command line: >> >> init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd >> >> If you are using GRUB2, change /etc/default/grub and modify >> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX so it has "init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd". Then run >> grub2-mkconfig again. >> >> Beware, systemd requires some kernel config options set or it will not >> work. For systemd 208, these are: >> >> AUTOFS4_FS >> BLK_DEV_BSG >> CGROUPS >> DEVTMPFS >> DMIID >> EPOLL >> FANOTIFY >> FHANDLE >> INOTIFY_USER >> IPV6 >> NET >> PROC_FS >> SECCOMP >> SIGNALFD >> SYSFS >> TIMERFD >> >> Also, the following kernel config options should *NOT* be set: >> >> IDE >> SYSFS_DEPRECATED >> SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 >> GRKERNSEC_PROC >> >> Lastly, if you have /usr in a different partition from /, you *need* >> an initramfs (this is now true also for OpenRC). Please check the >> instructions set in: >> >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd >> >> To finish, let me remark that systemd never had problems in your >> system. The problem was that you were not running systemd. >> >> Regards. >> -- >> Canek Peláez Valdés >> Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación >> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México > > > Thank you for correction. You are correct I would need to switch to new > systemd. > I think for now I'll go back to udev as I'm afraid something might not work > after switching :-/
Why don't you give it a try? You are almost there. When booting, edit the grub entry and add init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd. If it works, great; otherwise, you reboot and get back to where you were. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
