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

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

> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@×××××.at> wrote:
> > Am 15.05.2014 22:38, schrieb covici@××××××××××.com:
> >
> >> image=/boot/vmlinuz-3.6.2-gentoo
> >
> > phew. 3.6.2 is from October 2012 ...
> > Did you recompile it with the suggested options for systemd?
> >
> > Maybe it doesn't matter, but just a thought ... that kernel is quite old.
>
> It doesn't matter, at least in theory systemd works with linux-3.0.
>
> John, could you please send the output from dracut --print-cmdline? In
> my case, it lists *ALL* my lvms, and (I think) therefore all of them
> are mounted.
>
> Since your lilo.conf only lists rd.lvm.lv=linux-files/64-root and
> rd.lvm.lv=linux-files/64-usr, I think that would explain why it
> doesn't mount the others.
>
> If dracut --print-cmdline doesn't print the others, could you try to
> boot with rd.lvm.lv=linux-files/audio in the kernel command line
> specified in your lilo.conf? If after booting /audio is mounted, then
> I think we have found the problem. We'll need just to figure out why
> dracut --print-cmdline does not print the other lvms.
>
> Also, could you try to generate your initramfs again, but this time
> with add_dracutmodules+="systemd lvm"?
The secret to activate all the volumes, is to specify the volume groups
instead of each volume -- that got them all activated, but systemd still
is not working well.  The print-cmdline still just prints the volumes
necessary to mount the root and user file systems, which makes sense,
but why the rest of them do not activate, I have no clue.

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.  Some units did start, but most did not.  Whenever I tried to
start one manually, I got a message like the following:
I wrote
systemctl start /usr/lib/systemd/system/ntpd.service and got the error
that it was unable to start because
it could not find ntpd.service.mount:]
May 16 01:59:52 ccs kernel: <31>systemd[1]: Failed to load configuration
for usr-lib-systemd-system-ntpd.service.mount: No such file or directory
May 16 01:59:52 ccs kernel: <31>systemd[1]: Trying to enqueue job
usr-lib-systemd-system-ntpd.service.mount/start/replace
May 16 01:59:53 ccs kernel: <31>systemd[1]: Sent message type=error
sender=n/a destination=n/a object=n/a interface=n/a member=n/a cookie=1
reply_cookie=1 erro\r=Unit usr-lib-systemd-system-ntpd.service.mount
failed to load: No such file or directory.
May 16 01:59:53 ccs kernel: <31>systemd[1]: Failed to process message
[type=method_call sender=n/a path=/org/freedesktop/systemd1
interface=org.freedesktop.sys\temd1.Manager member=StartUnit
signature=ss]: Unit usr-lib-systemd-system-ntpd.service.mount failed to
load: No such file or directory.

No matter what unit I tried to start I would get such a  message about
the service.mount.

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.

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!

-- 
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         John Covici
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