Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with commands "reboot" and "shutdown"

[Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>]

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On Thursday 14 November 2024 17:35:42 GMT Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 15:42:40 +0000 you wrote:
> > On Sat, 9 Nov 2024 18:58:53 +0100
> > 
> > ralfconn <mentadent47@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > ...
> > > /bin and /sbin should be symlinks to /usr/bin if you switched to
> > 
> > > profile 23.0:
> > But not if they switched to 23.0/split-usr like me. I get:
> > ...
> > ls -l /sbin/reboot
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 30  2024 /sbin/reboot -> halt
> 
> Same on my laptop:
> 
>    $ eselect profile show
>    Current /etc/portage/make.profile symlink:
>      default/linux/amd64/23.0/split-usr/desktop
>    $ ls -l /sbin/reboot
>    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 526 2024-11-08 10:14 /sbin/reboot
>    $
> 
> Obviously the problem is somewhere else.  Meanwhile I found that running
> "shutdown" directly from a shell  works without  the additional symbolic
> links in directory "/usr/bin/".  But selecting "shutdown" or "reboot" in
> Xfce's "Action Button"  popup menu fails  when these  symbolic links are
> missing.
> 
> And I found that in syslog the message
> 
>    (3) reboo[14713]: Failed to execute /usr/bin/reboot: No such file or
> directory
> 
> is always immediately preceded (with exactly the same time stamp) by the
> message
> 
>    (5) kernel: elogind-daemon[1877]: System is rebooting.
> 
> But the last update of "sys-auth/elogind" to version 252.9-r2 was end of
> September and thus _before_ my last successful reboot  via Xfce's action
> buttons and without the symbolic links.  So "elogind" seems out.
> 
> As is kernel 6.6.58-r1, because booting an older kernel (6.6.52) without
> the symbolic links didn't work either.
> 
> So currently I'm  a bit out of ideas,  apart from leaving these symbolic
> links in "usr/bin/" :-(
> 
> Sincerely,
>   Rainer

I have no split-usr system here to compare notes, but did you try rebuilding 
the sys-auth/elogind package just in case?

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