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Yesterday I tried to switch my ~amd64 box from Gnome/systemd to Xfce/openrc. I followed |
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the wiki [1], [2] to install Xfce from a Gnome terminal: |
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- switch profile from 17.1/desktop/gnome/systemd to 17.1/desktop |
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- emerge xfce4-meta and some xfce4 applications/panels/extras |
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- unmerged systemd and emerged OpenRC |
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- emerge -uDvN world to account for the different profile flags |
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During the emerge I had to hard reset the system [3] which obviously did not boot so I |
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found a PCLinuxOS live cd from 2014 and managed to chroot into the partially updated |
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system. I resumed the emerge successfully, unmerged gnome and dependencies (this almost |
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took more than building Xfce...), rebuilt the kernel with the init system set to OpenRC |
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(make && make install), update the grub menu to no longer pass to the the kernel the |
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systemd init. |
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Now both emerge -uDvN world and emerge --depclean show a clean system. But the system |
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won't boot... |
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I attach a picture of the last kernel messages. I am not familiar with init systems but it |
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seems to me that init has started but then hangs at some point. From the chroot I |
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re-checked the /etc/runlevels contents, all links seem fine except a couple of stale ones |
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which I removed (mpd, syklogd and few others from pre-Gnome days). /etc/inititab looks |
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fine also. |
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One thing I notice from the boot log is that the root FS requires recovery. My live CDs |
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did not let me because they are too old so I'll try to find a more up to date live CD. |
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Other ideas? Have I missed some obvious step in the process? |
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thanks, |
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raffaele |
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[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xfce |
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[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xfce/Guide |
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[3] While emerge was ongoing I left the system alone for dinner time, when I got back gdm |
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had kicked in and did not let me log back in, neither through the GUI nor in a terminal |
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with CTRL-ALT-Fx. This is probably due to me having unmerged GDM before starting the |
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emerge to fix some dependency, thus a vivid example of PEBCAK |
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