[gentoo-user] OpenRC error message at boot

[gentoo-user] OpenRC error message at boot

[Francesco Turco]

Hello.

I get the following error message at boot time:

> * Mounting /proc...
> rm: cannot remove /run/openrc: Read-only file system

It's the very first script launched by OpenRC, but I cannot determine
which one it is. Anyway I'm quite sure it's a script from the sysinit
runlevel. This is because I tried using the interactive mode to stop the
boot process as soon as possible. When the system stopped there were
just a few sysinit scripts running.

rc-update show sysinit:

>                 devfs | sysinit
>                 dmesg | sysinit
>                 sysfs | sysinit
>                  udev | sysinit
>            udev-mount | sysinit

Openrc package version is 0.11.8 (on a ~amd64 system).

This is my /etc/fstab:

> /dev/sda2 none  swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/sda3 /     ext4 defaults 0 1
> /dev/sda4 /home ext4 defaults 0 2

I don't really know what other informations I should provide, so please
tell me if needed.

Thanks.

[gentoo-user] Re: OpenRC error message at boot

[walt]

On 12/17/2012 03:26 AM, Francesco Turco wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I get the following error message at boot time:
>
>> * Mounting /proc...
>> rm: cannot remove /run/openrc: Read-only file system
>
> It's the very first script launched by OpenRC, but I cannot determine
> which one it is. Anyway I'm quite sure it's a script from the sysinit
> runlevel.

I'm drawing on ancient memories here, but I'd try setting RC_DEBUG=yes
in /etc/rc.conf

If it doesn't help, then my ancient memories are obsolete :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenRC error message at boot

[Francesco Turco]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012, at 17:59, walt wrote:
> I'm drawing on ancient memories here, but I'd try setting RC_DEBUG=yes
> in /etc/rc.conf

Unfortunately there is no RC_DEBUG variable in my /etc/rc.conf file. The
following command returns nothing: grep -i debug /etc/rc.conf.

Anyway I tried downgrading openrc from 0.11.8 to 0.11.6, and with the
older version there is no error message at boot. So perhaps it's a bug
that has been introduced with 0.11.8.

---

Ok. I finally decided to report it:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447678

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenRC error message at boot

[Dale]

Francesco Turco wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012, at 17:59, walt wrote:
>> I'm drawing on ancient memories here, but I'd try setting RC_DEBUG=yes
>> in /etc/rc.conf
> Unfortunately there is no RC_DEBUG variable in my /etc/rc.conf file. The
> following command returns nothing: grep -i debug /etc/rc.conf.
>
> Anyway I tried downgrading openrc from 0.11.8 to 0.11.6, and with the
> older version there is no error message at boot. So perhaps it's a bug
> that has been introduced with 0.11.8.
>
> ---
>
> Ok. I finally decided to report it:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447678
>
>

If the RC_DEBUG setting is not there, add it.  There are lots of
settings that are not in there by default but you can add them if you
need to.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenRC error message at boot

[Randolph Maaßen]

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On Dec 18, 2012 9:53 AM, "Dale" <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Francesco Turco wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012, at 17:59, walt wrote:
> >> I'm drawing on ancient memories here, but I'd try setting RC_DEBUG=yes
> >> in /etc/rc.conf
> > Unfortunately there is no RC_DEBUG variable in my /etc/rc.conf file. The
> > following command returns nothing: grep -i debug /etc/rc.conf.
> >
> > Anyway I tried downgrading openrc from 0.11.8 to 0.11.6, and with the
> > older version there is no error message at boot. So perhaps it's a bug
> > that has been introduced with 0.11.8.
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Ok. I finally decided to report it:
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447678
> >
> >
>
> If the RC_DEBUG setting is not there, add it.  There are lots of
> settings that are not in there by default but you can add them if you
> need to.

IIRC all possible settings should be documented in "man <filename>.conf"

>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
> --
> I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
how you interpreted my words!
>
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenRC error message at boot

[Francesco Turco]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012, at 9:58, Randolph Maaßen wrote:
> IIRC all possible settings should be documented in "man <filename>.conf"

On my system:

$ man rc.conf
No manual entry for rc.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenRC error message at boot

[Randolph Maaßen]

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2012/12/18 Francesco Turco <fturco@fastmail.fm>

> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012, at 9:58, Randolph Maaßen wrote:
> > IIRC all possible settings should be documented in "man <filename>.conf"
>
> On my system:
>
> $ man rc.conf
> No manual entry for rc.conf
>
>
I'm  not on my system at the moment, so I can't check it, sorry for that.
Maybe it was
$man /etc/rc.conf
or it even doesn't exist. I found a man page for some config files.

-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Randolph Maaßen

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenRC error message at boot

[Francesco Turco]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012, at 9:49, Dale wrote:
> If the RC_DEBUG setting is not there, add it.  There are lots of
> settings that are not in there by default but you can add them if you
> need to.

It's strange because all variables in my /etc/rc.conf file are lowercase
(for example rc_interactive, rc_parallel, ...). Perhaps we are not
discussing the same openrc version.

Also, with equery files --filter=man/doc openrc, I couldn't find a
documentation file where there is a list of all possible variables for
rc.conf. It seems rc.conf itself is such a file, and I already check it
for a debug variable, without success.

[gentoo-user] Re: OpenRC error message at boot

[walt]

On 12/18/2012 01:07 AM, Francesco Turco wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012, at 9:49, Dale wrote:
>> If the RC_DEBUG setting is not there, add it.  There are lots of
>> settings that are not in there by default but you can add them if you
>> need to.
>
> It's strange because all variables in my /etc/rc.conf file are lowercase
> (for example rc_interactive, rc_parallel, ...). Perhaps we are not
> discussing the same openrc version.
>
> Also, with equery files --filter=man/doc openrc, I couldn't find a
> documentation file where there is a list of all possible variables for
> rc.conf. It seems rc.conf itself is such a file, and I already check it
> for a debug variable, without success.

I find obscure man pages like this:  $qlist openrc |grep man

The openrc package includes about twenty man pages, all of which look like
they were written for developers instead of us (l)users.

I (re)discovered the RC_DEBUG variable like this:  $grep -ri debug /lib64/rc/*
I say rediscover because I remember using it years ago when I was playing with
the *BSD operating systems, but without using grep I couldn't possibly remember
that.  There are some questions that require a group of old farts, and you have
found one in this mailing list :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenRC error message at boot

[Bruce Hill]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 05:25:13PM -0800, walt wrote:
> 
> that.  There are some questions that require a group of old farts, and you have
> found one in this mailing list :)

Something smells ... bad ... here. :(
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