Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc?
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 12:50:47
Message-Id: 2542664.fWqE56YMPB@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc? by n952162
1 On Saturday, 16 November 2019 09:34:02 GMT n952162 wrote:
2 > On 11/13/19 09:55, Mick wrote:
3 > > On Wednesday, 13 November 2019 06:48:11 GMT n952162 wrote:
4 > >> I've reinstalled gentoo from the gentoo repository and now my power
5 > >> button doesn't do a shutdown anymore. What do I have to do to have it
6 > >> issue a shutdown? This is an openrc system.
7 > >>
8 > >> I have this, but it doesn't work:
9 > >>
10 > >> $ cat /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn
11 > >> event=button[ /]power.*
12 > >> action=/sbin/poweroff
13 >
14 > Okay, I'm a bit further.
15 >
16 > I have that file as well, but it doesn't do anything because another
17 > script in that same directory, "default", has this:
18 >
19 > event=.*
20 > action=/etc/acpi/default.sh %e
21 >
22 > //etc/acpi/default.sh /invokes /actions/powerbtn.sh/ which checks if the
23 > init program (process 1) is running with the name "openrc-init".
24 > Otherwise, it's not interested.
25 >
26 > Unfortunately, I have:
27 >
28 > $ ps -p 1 -o comm=
29 > init
30 >
31 > Question: when does the init program run under the name openrc-init?
32
33 It is not simply a matter of different names, but of different binaries. As
34 far as I understand it, the /sbin/init of sys-apps/sysvinit is used by openrc
35 unless you have modified your system to use openrc-init (a different binary to
36 /sbin/init) as explained here:
37
38 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC/openrc-init
39
40 I may have this wrong of course, but hopefully a more learned participant will
41 chime in soon to explain it better to us. :-)
42
43 --
44 Regards,
45
46 Mick

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc? n952162 <n952162@×××.de>
[gentoo-user] Re: power button to shutdown for openrc? Ian Zimmerman <itz@××××××××××××.org>