[Solved]Was experimenting with systemd; now gentoo broken

ShanaXXII · Apprentice Joined: 29 Jun 2014 Posts: 283 Location: Canada

I was trying to install systemd onto my gentoo for the past week.
it said to use genkernel-next instead of genkernel. Not sure waht the difference is.
So portage said genkernel and genkernel-next cant be installed at the same time.
So I uninstalled genkernel and installed -next.

I then use # make menuconfig to makea config menu, tweaked around a
little and created a vmlinuz
Then I did # genkernel --install initramfs to make an initram for it.

updated bootloader with # grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
did a emerge --depclean (not sure why) and got rid of 2 packages.
changed my /etc/default/grub so it boot from systemd

rebooted. It still booted into OpenRC for some reason. and now a bunch of stuff are not working.
- wireless connection isnt working(wpa_supplicant) --> says it cant connect to ctrlif_name
- sound no longer works --> $ alsamixer --> gives an error
- dhcpcd no longer works ---> says command not found

eccerr0r · Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 7:49 pm Post subject:

You can look at /var/log/emerge.log and see what it unmerged/depcleaned.

Sounds like your /boot/grub/grub.conf somehow did not get the right init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd ... may need to doublecheck your grub source.

Missing your sound/wireless drivers in your kernel?

You may have inadvertently unmerged net-misc/dhcpcd or your command path is not set? /sbin/dhcpcd ? If you're using Networkmanager do you have USE=dhcpcd ?

Do you have USE=systemd (or are using a systemd profile for make.profile) ?
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depontius · Advocate Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 3509

There is oneother things, too...

Assuming you're using gentoo-sources, there are kernel config items near the top for both openrc and systemd. They are not mutually exclusive, you can select both if you want to flip back and forth between the two init systems on the same kernel. If you have both init systems still installed, you can use different grub entries to do this.
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ShanaXXII · Apprentice Joined: 29 Jun 2014 Posts: 283 Location: Canada

I think I got it. I completely removed all systemd stuff and now its working fine.
But it sucks that I dont get to try systemd ):

creaker · l33t Joined: 14 Jul 2012 Posts: 651