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Raffaele Belardi wrote: |
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> At this point of the boot process the system did very few things, the problem should be |
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> relatively easy to trace so I refuse to give up. Long nights ahead. |
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And at this point of the day I give up. |
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My findings: |
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- the 'random: crng init done' printed during the boot is the kernel, not OpenRC. The |
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OpenRC script just manages the seed and does not print that string. So, most probably |
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OpenRC is never started. |
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- from the chroot I invoked /sbin/openrc <runlevel>. It spits out errors due to the chroot |
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environment but other than that seems to work fine for all runlevels. So the init scripts |
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and /sbin/openrc are fine. |
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- I also issued startxfce4 from the chroot and got a 'working' GUI. Not very useful but I |
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was curious. |
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- one of the init scripts complained that it was unable to open /run and actually the |
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directory was not present. Possibly it was deleted as a side effect of the system crash? |
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Anyway, I restored it but no luck. |
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- I grub-loaded a different kernel, one built for systemd. It stops in the exact same |
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place as the openrc-built one. |
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- I recompiled the kernel with openrc and systemd options and made sure it was loaded |
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(renamed the image file, got grub error, renamed it back, grub happy). I increased the |
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kernel (I think console message) log level but nothing useful was output. |
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- /sbin/init is the next possible failure point but without logs there's not much to |
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debug. I re-emerged sysvinit and openrc but no go. |
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Ok, I've had enough. Thanks to all who contributed, this issue will remain a mystery. |
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raffaele |
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