Re: [gentoo-user] Re: switch from gnome/systemd to xfce/openrc borked my system

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Monday, 19 August 2019 13:24:05 BST Raffaele Belardi wrote:
> Mick wrote:
> > On Monday, 19 August 2019 07:41:20 BST Raffaele Belardi wrote:
> > 
> > You have 3 drives attached while you're trying to boot.  The kernel seems
> > to come to a stop after /dev/sdc.  It may need some driver for this
> > device/fs. I'd start by unplugging any drives which do not contain the
> > system you're trying to boot, then go through a step by step process of
> > installing/setting up openrc, DM and boot loader.
> 
> sdc is an external USB drive, I'll try to unplug that.
> 
> > The DM is not necessary to boot your system, but while you chrooted into
> > it
> > you might as well install and set up sddm as a DM - there are others but
> > be
> > careful they do not try to bring in 2/3 of Gnome and its dependencies too.
> 
> I'll do but first I want to see a working terminal, too much stuff to debug
> otherwise.
> > Re-install GRUB or whichever boot manager you use and make sure it points
> > to the correct kernel.  If you're on an UEFI system and you boot directly
> > using the kernel EFI stub, re-run efibootmgr to specify the kernel UEFI
> > will boot with, but first run fsck.vfat on the EFI partition just in case
> > this fs was messed up too.
> 
> It's grub2, non-UEFI. I don't normally reinstall it when I update the
> kernel, I only run grub-mkconfig. I did the same this time.
> 
> > Make sure you are using a kernel set up for openrc.
> 
> Good catch, although I'm not sure where to find that info in the available
> kernel log. I'll look better, I need to stop it from scrolling.

It may be possible to hit CTRL-s to pause the scrolling, then CTRL-q to resume 
it.

> > In /etc/rc.conf set up a log file and temporarily enable logging.  If any
> > openrc scripts fail and can't boot, you will able to look at the logs when
> > you chroot back into it - using less/cat/plain text editor.  ;-)
> 
> Good idea.
> 
> > I hope the above should allow you to boot, or at least arrive at some
> > meaningful failure message to resolve.
> 
> One of the last things printed in the kernel log is "random: crng init
> done". The random service is part (possibly the last service) of the boot
> runlevel which is entered after the sysinit runlevel. So apparently a lot
> of openrc stuff has already started successfully. Instead, nothing from the
> default runlevel is output. I'll re-check those services.
> 
> raffaele


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Regards,
Peter.