Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting systemd to work

Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:11 PM,  <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> > Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:17 PM,  <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> >> [snip]
> >> >> I don't understand the current situation .So now you get ALL your
> >> >> volumes activated, or not?
> >> >
> >> > Yep, they are all activated and they all get mounted.
> >>
> >> Cool, one problem less.
> >>
> >> >> > Now for some systemd problems.  The root file system was read only when
> >> >> > I logged in, but I could remount it rw -- not sure why this was
> >> >> > happening.
> >> >>
> >> >> Set systemd.log_level=debug in your command line, and post the exit
> >> >> from journalctl -b.
> >> >
> >> > I had debug in the command line by itself, would that make the correct
> >> > log_level?  The file is quite large, should I send it to you privately?
> >>
> >> I don't think is necessary, I may have found the real problem (see below).
> >>
> >> >> >  Some units did start, but most did not.  Whenever I tried to
> >> >> > start one manually, I got a message like the following:
> >> [snip]
> >> >> > No matter what unit I tried to start I would get such a  message about
> >> >> > the service.mount.
> >> >>
> >> >> That sounds like a problem with the cgroups hierarchy (which uses a
> >> >> virtual filesystem). I don't remember seeing a problem like that
> >> >> before.
> >> >>
> >> >> > Also, even though my network names were correct, they did not come up,
> >> >> > but I will try to look in the logs to see why not.
> >> > I wrote a service file to start my network adaptors, here it is:
> >> > network@.service
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > [Unit]
> >> > Description=Network Connectivity for %i
> >> > Wants=network.target
> >> > Before=network.target
> >> > BindsTo=sys-subsystem-net-devices-%i.device
> >> > After=sys-subsystem-net-devices-%i.device
> >> > [Service]
> >> > Type=oneshot
> >> > RemainAfterExit=yes
> >> > EnvironmentFile=/etc/conf.d/network@%i
> >> > ExecStart=/usr/bin/ip link set dev %i up
> >> > ExecStart=/usr/bin/ip addr add ${address}/${netmask} broadcast ${broadcast} dev %i
> >> > ExecStart=/bin/bash -c 'test -n ${gateway} && /usr/bin/ip route add default via
> >> > ${gateway}'
> >> > ExecStart=/bin/bash -c 'test -f /etc/conf.d/postup@%i.sh&&/bin/bash  /etc/conf.d/postup@%i.sh
> >> > ExecStop=/usr/bin/ip addr flush dev %i
> >> > ExecStop=/usr/bin/ip link set dev %i down
> >> > [Install]
> >> > WantedBy=network.target
> >>
> >> Did you enabled network@×××××.service? Also, WantedBy=network.target
> >> doesn't do what you probably think it does (check [1]... and BTW, I
> >> forgot my last footnote, is now on [2]).
> >>
> >> I would use WantedBy=multi-user.target.
> >>
> >> >> systemd will not (AFAIK) start your network, and before the 209 or 210
> >> >> version it needed helper program (NetwokrManager, connman, ip,
> >> >> ifconfig, etc.) to do it. Now it includes networkd, but you need to
> >> >> set up .network files (like .service files) to configure it. See [1].
> >> >>
> >> >> > So we have made some progress, but still a long way to go yet.  Note
> >> >> > also, that I am not booting into a display manager, just a regular
> >> >> > console.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > What a lot of work just to get the system booted!
> >> >>
> >> >> Well, you have a setup that is not, by any means, simple. Also, in my
> >> >> experience old LVM configurations seem to cause a lot of troubles to
> >> >> bring to what systemd expects.
> >> >>
> >> >> John, could you also post here your kernel config? Those cgroups
> >> >> errors *may* be related to some missing functionality from the kernel.
> >>
> >> [snip kernel config]
> >>
> >> John, your kernel is incorrectly configured to be used by systemd.
> >> When you installed systemd, a warning should have appeared about some
> >> missing configure options; you either didn't saw or ignored those
> >> warnings. Install systemd again so you can see them.
> >>
> >> From what I can tell, you are missing *AT LEAST* the following options:
> >>
> >> CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS
> > configured as a module.
> >
> >> CONFIG_DMIID
> >
> > set to Y
> >
> >> CONFIG_FANOTIFY
> > set to y
> >
> >> CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER
> > set to y
> >
> >
> >> CONFIG_PROC_FS
> > set to y
> >
> >> CONFIG_SYSFS
> > set to y
>
> I beg your pardon; GMail cut the config file and I didn't notice.
>
> Well then, please send me privately the output from journalctl -b.
I did find one error so far, I had network@.eth0 and eth2 when I should
have had network@eth0 and eth2 -- thanks to Stefan.

I will send you what logs I have.

Thanks.

>
> Regards.
> --
> Canek Peláez Valdés
> Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias
> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
>

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