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PostPosted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 5:07 pm    Post subject: [SOLVED] OpenRC halting boot right after * Starting local Reply with quote

Hello Elders,

I think I should explain how I reach to that point.


  1. I was away from my system for about a week. After returning I tried a system upgrade. It failed because of Blocked Package. Turned out something was pulling systemd in. 8O
  2. I never used systemd in this installation of Gentoo, or any installation of Gentoo on my machine. I ran some equery and depclean commands and figured that for some reason virtual/udev, virtual/libudev was pulling in systemd-utils, and sys-apps/dbus is directly pulling in systemd and causing the block. systemd USE flag was disabled for virtual/udev, and virtual/libudev. But enabled for sys-apps/dbus, even after I put sys-apps/dbus -systemd.
  3. There was several package outdated so I upgraded the system with --exclude sys-apps/dbus option, avoiding the Blocked package error.
  4. Did a reboot, voila, my openrc system is trying to boot with systemd :!: ; with the following error
    Code:
    '/newroot/sbin/init' was not found, is not a file or is not executable, maybe a symlink
    .
  5. I found this forum topic, and add the following in my /etc/default/grub:
    Code:
    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="init=/sbin/openrc-init"

  6. After booting with livecd and chrooting and generating a new grub.cfg, Gentoo boot with openrc; only to halt the booting process after * Starting local ... [ ok]. Ctrl+Alt+f2 just give me a blank screen.


At this point I'm clueless what to try. I don't even know how systemd suddenly occur in my system, this installation is about a couple months old.

TIA, elders!
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 5:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you use openrc-init, ensure that agetty.tty1 (as a symlink to agetty service) is in the default runlevel or there will be no prompt.
openrc-init will not start any terminals unless told to via agetty.* services.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 5:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

zedxot,

OpenRC is supposed to have systemd-utils.
It's bits and pieces of code from systemd that OpenRC users require the functionality of. It is not systemd.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 5:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

grknight wrote:
If you use openrc-init, ensure that agetty.tty1 (as a symlink to agetty service) is in the default runlevel or there will be no prompt.
openrc-init will not start any terminals unless told to via agetty.* services.


Thanks. After a whole day I was able to run startx.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 5:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NeddySeagoon wrote:
zedxot,

OpenRC is supposed to have systemd-utils.
It's bits and pieces of code from systemd that OpenRC users require the functionality of. It is not systemd.


I see. But why would dbus pulled in systemd, the USE flag was always enabled. I didn't use systemd USE flag anywhere.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

zedxot,

Post your
Code:
emerge --info
please.

USE=systemd should only be set by a systemd profile.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NeddySeagoon wrote:
zedxot,

Post your
Code:
emerge --info
please.

USE=systemd should only be set by a systemd profile.


Code:
doas emerge --info

Output: https://dpaste.com/69R8Y3A5N
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

zedxot,

There us no USE=systemd there. That's correct.

Does
Code:
$ doas emerge --info
Unavailable repository 'steam-overlay' referenced by masters entry in '/var/db/repos/kzd/metadata/layout.conf'
matter?
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

NeddySeagoon wrote:
zedxot,

There us no USE=systemd there. That's correct.

Does
Code:
$ doas emerge --info
Unavailable repository 'steam-overlay' referenced by masters entry in '/var/db/repos/kzd/metadata/layout.conf'
matter?


Correct. There is no USE=systemd anywhere in /etc/portage. Although there isn't any -systemd either.

I don't think so. I use a certain cli program from this repo to track my anime and mangas which sync with anilist.co. It's just that layout.conf has the following code in it:
Code:

masters = gentoo steam-overlay
thin-manifests = true
sign-manifests = false


The emerge warning goes away if I remove steam-overlay from the masters. I just have to delete it everytime I sync the repo.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

output of
Code:
emerge -pv sys-apps/dbus
vs.
Code:
USE="-systemd" emerge -pv sys-apps/dbus

Code:
grep -iR systemd /etc/portage/
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 3:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

freke wrote:
output of
Code:
emerge -pv sys-apps/dbus
vs.
Code:
USE="-systemd" emerge -pv sys-apps/dbus

Code:
grep -iR systemd /etc/portage/



Hello, sorry for late response. I tried to reply earlier but for some reason I couldn't submit the reply. It just buffered for a long time.

I did have a USE=systemd in my /etc/portage, that was causing the issue.

Thanks everyone for the help. <3
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