Hi,

Wanted to see whats all the fuss about so I tried installing Systemd on a laptop. following the guide on wiki.gentoo.org [1].

But I am having trouble running systemctl to configure the services I want started. Heres what I get (both as root and as a normal user).

# systemctl --all --full

Failed to get D-Bus connection: No connection to service manager.

I know Dbus is running for sure.

$ ps ax | grep dbus

2094 ? Ss 0:09 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system

2803 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session

2804 ? Ss 0:06 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session

I tried booting with systemd to see what happens. It starts booting fine up to the point where it starts mounting the partitions. It just stops after mounting my /home partition. Nothing works at this point apart from a hard reboot. My partitioning is simple separate partitions for boot, home, root and the portage tree (all ext4). No separate /usr (phew). Also I do not have an initramfs.

What am I missing? do I need to modify any of the systemd config files? etc?

Here are the details of some of the packages.

sys-fs/udev-182-r2 (gudev hwdb keymap openrc rule_generator -build -debug -doc -floppy -introspection -selinux -static-libs)

sys-apps/systemd-43 (acl pam tcpd -audit -cryptsetup -gtk -lzma -plymouth -selinux)

Thanks.

[1] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd

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