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 90CC6138CD3 for ; Thu, 28 May 2015 17:46:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8BF5DE08A4; Thu, 28 May 2015 17:46:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-f176.google.com (mail-ig0-f176.google.com [209.85.213.176]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 78A03E089A for ; Thu, 28 May 2015 17:46:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by igbpi8 with SMTP id pi8so120192142igb.0 for ; Thu, 28 May 2015 10:46:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2q0QiiIERCdMUmUBD3k0WiqRVNjG37TvIAbXBRwPQcU=; b=oA4/8YoV1OiQzbkIw/7cFS2aqDSBjSh1kfh4DNf8GPIn9bxGJA9XAw9kmv7YfERYCZ 3skQlUbX+MBKybKLJ4uA5bYhPYWq3MK3qgT3Wwee6lBNvlpLSC2uqFsFNo5FkWtxeucU yIimv2GpxMU8Mlswy9s1M8dIfycTTd0MDIp+Iznanr7dqXal/QwzQkObgYdLqWDyGrah mL59hWzNn+qbGxwmhl+ZEMuBj/9/2zLruhYCzDBQ0nxqvvmwIBk6Hu/6rDNTiapyMeCI rvPn3jyzWGV3QTI7AZv1Q2kNwkayvpnUW1LRCpDOAUmHdKovULbSrh7US2SHP8S53gDq LMcw== 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 X-Received: by 10.50.44.99 with SMTP id d3mr12757707igm.10.1432835170864; Thu, 28 May 2015 10:46:10 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.107.6.34 with HTTP; Thu, 28 May 2015 10:46:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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> Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 13:46:10 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4LMm8USMXpxdjgqpFJJrlu8PtVc Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problems debugging a systemd problem From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 688fea29-c179-4d76-89db-c0c01840d812 X-Archives-Hash: a6a3913db1b17d262ce814f5dc3606af On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s wrote: > Others have already answered, but I will add that if you put "emergency" > anywhere in the kernel command line, then systemd will boot to the rescue > target; that's why I suggested to do it in my first answer. I'm pretty sure that won't work for an initramfs - they're almost certainly designed to ignore that instruction. Usually when somebody wants a rescue shell, they want it in their root filesystem, and not in their initramfs before it has pivoted. That is why dracut has options like rd.break. If the problem were with systemd/services/etc in the actual root filesystem (once the actual distro has started booting), then putting emergency on the command line should get you a rescue shell. The same generally applies to openrc - if the initramfs isn't mounting your root filesystem, then passing instructions to openrc won't do anything since in that case openrc isn't even running. -- Rich