From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64BAB138CD3 for ; Thu, 28 May 2015 11:46:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A7E8E08E1; Thu, 28 May 2015 11:46:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail0200.smtp25.com (mail0200.smtp25.com [174.37.170.200]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1E383E08B8 for ; Thu, 28 May 2015 11:46:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.9/8.14.8) with ESMTP id t4SBkIWO017992 for ; Thu, 28 May 2015 07:46:18 -0400 From: covici@ccs.covici.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problems debugging a systemd problem In-reply-to: <5566D8FF.3070402@xunil.at> References: <28995.1432789799@ccs.covici.com> <30995.1432793754@ccs.covici.com> <5566BFF9.7040004@xunil.at> <1823.1432798791@ccs.covici.com> <5566CA9F.5040608@xunil.at> <5450.1432801814@ccs.covici.com> <5566D8FF.3070402@xunil.at> Comments: In-reply-to "Stefan G. Weichinger" message dated "Thu, 28 May 2015 10:59:43 +0200." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.5; nmh 1.6; GNU Emacs 23.4.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <17990.1432813578.1@ccs.covici.com> Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 07:46:18 -0400 Message-ID: <17991.1432813578@ccs.covici.com> X-SpamH-OriginatingIP: 70.109.53.110 X-SpamH-Filter: s-out-001.smtp25.com-t4SBkIEs013962 X-Archives-Salt: 81872d1c-7d8b-44ce-bce4-6d4d40386665 X-Archives-Hash: 07627b93c9a69fe2988914338f563eda Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > On 28.05.2015 10:30, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > I still have openrc, but Dracut won't work with it, at least maybe > > because I have systemd use flag enabled. Also, in retrospect, that > > would not have solved my specific problems, because it was related to an > > rd.lv command which is specific to dracut. > > You could rebuild the initrd from live-cd maybe > > > But thanks for your suggestion. I wonder what the rescue target is -- I > > have never seen that before -- maybe I could configure it so I could > > boot into a shell and fix things and it would be sort of like a little > > system of its own. > > It's a target of systemd, kind of a runlevel. > > see http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Debugging/#index1h1 > > quote: > > "To boot directly into rescue target add systemd.unit=rescue.target or > just 1 to the kernel command line." OK, thanks, I will definitely check that one out. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com