OpenRC support thread, 2d Edition

mungo_k · n00b Joined: 01 Jun 2009 Posts: 42

A big problem.
I have an old proxy server with gentoo. After update to openrc there was no problem.
Now I had to add some of services to default runlevel. I added clamav (rc-update add clamd default). After reboot it doesn't run! No messages, it just skipped. Manual run works (/etc/init.d/clamd start).
I tried to remove and after add again this, no effect.

Any help?

zeek · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 4:17 pm Post subject: Needlessly restarting services?

A difference I noticed with OpenRC is that it restarts a lot of services when restarting a network interface. Is there any way to get the old behavior?

ManDay · Apprentice Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 247

Is there any comprehensive documentation with OpenRC? It appears that the best it gets are some sporadic comments in the configuration files. What about documentation of all the things in /etc/conf.d/ such as ./modules and how all the other things? A documentation of the init scripts, perhaps? Is OpenRC practically not documented?

John R. Graham · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 8:38 pm Post subject:

Except for these 80-some-odd documents,

ManDay · Apprentice Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 247

Oh :) Looks like the generic documentation for the OpenRC framework, though - are the individual components (such as modules) also documented somewhere?

John R. Graham · Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:22 pm Post subject:

Alas, I don't think there is a "What You Can Do with Baselayout" tutorial document all in one place. Some of it is in the Baselayout and OpenRC Migration Guide but this is by no means a complete HOWTO on the capabilities.

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fremda · n00b Joined: 05 Dec 2011 Posts: 9

After a certain world upgrade several months ago i can't see console boot log on tty1. It's there, but login screen clears all log. How to stop this? I want welcome message after boot log.

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fremda · n00b Joined: 05 Dec 2011 Posts: 9

eohrnberger · Apprentice Joined: 09 Dec 2004 Posts: 250

Hi all. Seems I'm coming a little late to the OpenRC party, oh well.

Just got done migrating to the new OpenRC & baselayout and what an improvement. The system boots so much faster.

Got through all the modules things, network things, etc. All seems to be working with one little issue.

I have a number of hard disks in this system, about 1/3 EIDE and the rest SATA, but somehow or another, the appropriate /dev/sd device nodes (yes, I've migrated to LibATA long ago), are missing. Mind you that the system is using all the hard disks, so it must be finding them somewhere. EVMS volumes are all intact.

These missing /dev/sd? nodes really messes up smartd, which I'm using to monitor these hard disks health.

Here are the related smartd log lines:
Jan 15 07:51:30 storage smartd[27664]: Device: /dev/sda, open() failed: No such device
Jan 15 07:51:30 storage smartd[27664]: Device: /dev/sdb, open() failed: No such device
Jan 15 07:51:30 storage smartd[27664]: Device: /dev/sdc, open() failed: No such device
Jan 15 07:51:30 storage smartd[27664]: Device: /dev/sdd, open() failed: No such device
Jan 15 07:51:30 storage smartd[27664]: Device: /dev/sde, open() failed: No such device
Jan 15 07:51:30 storage smartd[27664]: Device: /dev/sdf, open() failed: No such device

The drives after /dev/sdf are all there, and smartd can monitor those.

The most interesting thing is that EVMS is finding the /dev/sda - /dev/sdf nodes just fine.

Any pointers where I can start to investigate and make udev put these nodes back in dev where I need them?

I search around a bit, but if there's another thread or post I can start with, just point me there.

Thanks in advance.

quanta · n00b Joined: 11 Sep 2010 Posts: 61

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Bein · n00b Joined: 19 Sep 2011 Posts: 2

I try to emerge openrc after baselayout-2, but I get a compile error complaining about a missing "einfo.h":

milkteafuzz · n00b Joined: 10 Sep 2011 Posts: 2 Location: Austin, TX

I ran into this same issue today, upgrading a Gentoo install from 2008 (it was the only gentoo image that my vps provider had at the time - last I heard they were working on a new image but oh well).

einfo.h and friends are part of openrc, but that's exactly what you're compiling, is it not? I was able to resolve this by compiling an older version of openrc first and then upgrading to the latest version.

weedy · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 247

I'm using the parallel option in openrc. Is there anyway to block parallel inside a init script?

I have a slow script that runs on shutdown but some times the root FS is still unmounted before it finishes. I thought depend localmount was enough be it looks like it isn't. Any ideas?