Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting systemd to work

["Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@xunil.at>]

Am 14.05.2014 18:38, schrieb covici@ccs.covici.com:
> Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Jc García <jyo.garcia@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2014-05-14 9:51 GMT-06:00 Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com>:
>>>> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:42 AM,  <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>>>>> Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:05 AM,  <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
>>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>>> I am using version 037 and the command line was very simple
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As I told you in [1], the 037 version has problems with LVM; please
>>>>>> also check the thread in [2], specially the post in [3].
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please try again with dracut-036-r4.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/274340
>>>>>> [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/274152
>>>>>> [3] http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org/msg145647.html
>>>>>> (for some reason it doesn't appear in gmane).
>>>>> portage won't let me downgrade unless I downgrade systemd to 2.10 --
>>>>> should I do that?
>>>>
>>>> You mean 210. I'm on 208; my LVM test system is basically stable.
>>>>
>>>> However Jc says he's got it to work with dracut 037-r1; perhaps try
>>>> that version first?
>>>>
>>>> What I do know is that with dracut 037, me and Stefan ran intro troubles.
>>>>
>>> I described it as a 'workaround' in my first post, aware of the fact
>>> that the behavior is not normal, but dracut acctually gives help
>>> finding this workaround, wich is telling the kernel what LVs to use at
>>> boot.
>>
>> Sorry, I forgot about that.
>>
>> I just tried my test LVM system with dracur-037-r1 and it didn't work.
>> I have not tried yet your workaround, but there is obviously something
>> fishy going on with the latest version of dracut; I would stay with
>> 036-r4.
>>
>> I will try your workaround, although my system is a little more
>> complicated, since it uses RAID and LUKS besides LVM.
> 
> Here is what I got when I tried to emerge 036-r4 :
> 
> Script started on Wed 14 May 2014 11:45:56 AM EDT
> 
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies  ..... done!
> [ebuild     UD ] sys-kernel/dracut-036-r4 [037] USE="systemd -debug (-selinux)" 250 kB
> [blocks B      ] >=sys-apps/systemd-210 (">=sys-apps/systemd-210" is blocking sys-kernel/dracut-036-r4)
> 
> Total: 1 package (1 downgrade), Size of downloads: 250 kB
> Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied)
> 
>  * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
>  * installed at the same time on the same system.
> 
>   (sys-apps/systemd-212-r4:0/2::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
>     sys-apps/systemd:0/2= required by (gnome-base/gvfs-1.20.1:0/0::gnome, installed)
>     >=sys-apps/systemd-183:0/2= required by (net-misc/networkmanager-0.9.8.10:0/0::gnome, installed)
>     sys-apps/systemd:0/2=[abi_x86_64(-)] required by (media-sound/pulseaudio-5.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
>     >=sys-apps/systemd-186:0= required by (sys-apps/accountsservice-0.6.37:0/0::gentoo, installed)
>     >=sys-apps/systemd-206 required by (sys-process/procps-3.3.9-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
>     >=sys-apps/systemd-183:0/2= required by (gnome-base/gnome-session-3.12.1:0/0::gnome, installed)
>     >=sys-apps/systemd-186:0/2= required by (sys-apps/accountsservice-0.6.37:0/0::gentoo, installed)
>     >=sys-apps/systemd-208 required by (sys-fs/udisks-2.1.3:2/2::gentoo, installed)
>     sys-apps/systemd required by (net-wireless/bluez-5.18:0/3::gentoo, installed)
>     >=sys-apps/systemd-207 required by (sys-apps/gentoo-systemd-integration-4:0/0::gentoo, installed)
>     >=sys-apps/systemd-183:0= required by (net-misc/networkmanager-0.9.8.10:0/0::gnome, installed)
>     >=sys-apps/systemd-44:0= required by (x11-misc/colord-1.2.0:0/2::gentoo, installed)
>     sys-apps/systemd:0= required by (sys-apps/dbus-1.8.2:0/0::gentoo, installed)
>     >=sys-apps/systemd-186:0=[pam] required by (gnome-base/gdm-3.12.1:0/0::gnome, installed)
>     >=sys-apps/systemd-31 required by (gnome-base/gnome-shell-3.12.1:0/0::gnome, installed)
>     >=sys-apps/systemd-44:0/2= required by (x11-misc/colord-1.2.0:0/2::gentoo, installed)
>     sys-apps/systemd required by @selected
>     sys-apps/systemd required by (gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-3.12.1:0/0::gnome, installed)
>     >=sys-apps/systemd-31 required by (gnome-base/gnome-control-center-3.12.1:2/2::gnome, installed)
>     >=sys-apps/systemd-208:0/2[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,gudev,introspection?,static-libs(-)?] (>=sys-apps/systemd-208:0/2[abi_x86_64(-),gudev,introspection]) required by (virtual/libgudev-208:0/0::gentoo, installed)
>     sys-apps/systemd:0=[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?] (sys-apps/systemd:0=[abi_x86_64(-)]) required by (media-sound/pulseaudio-5.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
>     >=sys-apps/systemd-183:0= required by (gnome-base/gnome-session-3.12.1:0/0::gnome, installed)
>     >=sys-apps/systemd-208:0/2[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,static-libs(-)?] (>=sys-apps/systemd-208:0/2[abi_x86_64(-)]) required by (virtual/libudev-208:0/1::gentoo, installed)
>     >=sys-apps/systemd-208:0 required by (virtual/udev-208-r2:0/0::gentoo, installed)
>     sys-apps/systemd:0= required by (gnome-base/gvfs-1.20.1:0/0::gnome, installed)
>     >=sys-apps/systemd-204[pam] required by (sys-auth/pambase-20140313:0/0::gentoo, installed)
>     sys-apps/systemd required by (media-sound/mpd-0.18.10-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
>     >=sys-apps/systemd-200 required by (sys-power/upower-0.99.0:0/2::gentoo, installed)
>     sys-apps/systemd:0/2= required by (sys-apps/dbus-1.8.2:0/0::gentoo, installed)
>     sys-apps/systemd:0= required by (sys-auth/polkit-0.112-r2:0/0::gentoo, installed)
>     >=sys-apps/systemd-186:0/2=[pam] required by (gnome-base/gdm-3.12.1:0/0::gnome, installed)
>     >=sys-apps/systemd-199 required by (sys-kernel/dracut-036-r4:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
> 
>   (sys-kernel/dracut-036-r4:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
>     =sys-kernel/dracut-036-r4
>     sys-kernel/dracut required by @selected


.... yes, it's a shame ... you would have to rebuild all these packages
after downgrading systemd. I had that myself back then. Hopefully it
helps you to find the issues (you won't need to rebuild all gnome-stuff
just to test your boot-process .... )

Stefan