[gentoo-user] Re: Connman refuses to work

[Melleus <melleus@openmailbox.org>]

Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> writes:

> On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 7:33 AM, Melleus <melleus@openmailbox.org> wrote:
>> After last system update my connman refuses to work. It throws a
>> message:
>> The name net.connman was not provided by any .service files
>>
>> There is connman service installed in default runlevel. Connman version
>> is 1.29. I had not changed any configuration file before it stopped
>> working. I suspect that this is somehow tied with the questionable
>> design of the softwares related to systemd (I moved to Gentoo with
>> OpenRC to escape from systemd intervention). But I cannot really
>> understand what is happening. Does anybody have similar problem? How to
>> solve it?
>
> What service manager are you actually using?  Are you actually booted
> using openrc, or systemd?

I use openrc. Connman pretends to start, but when checking its status with:

/etc/init.d/connman status

I get

* status: crashed

message. So for some unclear reason it cannot start properly.