Transition from rc.conf to systemd

[jcha93]

Hi,

I'm trying to transition from rc.conf to systemd on my goFlexHome.

Current status is:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '[root@goflex boot]# cat /proc/1/comm
init
')

As per https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd, I should "append the following to your kernel line: init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd"
But I'm not clear where I should act.

Could you guide me ?

For info:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
[root@goflex ~]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
alarm is up to date
aur is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
there is nothing to do
[root@goflex ~]#

[root@goflex boot]# pwd
/boot
[root@goflex boot]# ls -l
total 5384
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2855240 Nov 24 21:37 uImage
-rw------- 1 root root 2643635 May 10 2012 uInitrd
')

Thanks,
Jérôme

[pepedog]

You don't need to do that, install systemd-sysvcompat and reboot
What does cat /proc/1/comm say now?

[moonman]

You need to modify u-boot environment as this is the bootloader used on arm. Depending on whether you boot from sata or usb you need to modify either usb_custom_params or sata_custom_params. If you can, do a complete reinstall instead of messing with U-boot/Ubit.

[moonman]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pepedog', 'Y')ou don't need to do that, install systemd-sysvcompat and reboot
What does cat /proc/1/comm say now?

[pepedog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('moonman', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pepedog', 'Y')ou don't need to do that, install systemd-sysvcompat and reboot
What does cat /proc/1/comm say now?

[jcha93]

Hi,

So 3 options:
* fw_setenv usb_custom_params 'init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd'
* fw_setenv sata_custom_params 'init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd'
* re-install

I would try to avoid re-install as I'm not confident enough and procedure sounds not to have changed on http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5 ... oflex-home. So I don't see how it would fix my issue.

For the 2 first options, I highly suspect that I'm booting SATA as USB is connected to audio DAC. But is there any way to check (in case internally it is not boting where I expect) ?

Regards,
Jérôme

[moonman]

The precedure hasn't changed bot the tarball with rootfs has, it contains the full systemd setup.

You boot from sata since you said you don't have any usb storage devices attached.

What pepedog said should work, but check this first:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'ls -l /sbin/ | grep init')

should output:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Nov 27 23:54 init -> ../usr/lib/systemd/systemd')

[jcha93]

Not linked to systemd yet:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '[root@goflex sbin]# ls -l /sbin/ | grep init
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 29628 Oct 15 04:27 init
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 15 04:27 telinit -> init
')

Should I do the link manually ?

[moonman]

You should check after you pacman -Sy systemd-sysvcompat

If no link, you can pacman -Sy sysvinit and then do the u-boot trick

I do have that symlink so I would think you would have it as well.

[jcha93]

Hi,

I installed systemd-sysvcompat
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
[root@goflex sbin]# pacman -Sy systemd-sysvcompat
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
alarm is up to date
aur is up to date
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: systemd-sysvcompat and sysvinit are in conflict. Remove sysvinit? [y/N] y

Targets (2): sysvinit-2.88-9 [removal] systemd-sysvcompat-196-2

Total Download Size: 0.01 MiB
Total Installed Size: 0.05 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: -0.09 MiB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from core...
systemd-sysvcompat-196-2-arm 5.4 KiB 1045K/s 00:00 [###########################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity [###########################################################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [###########################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [###########################################################################] 100%
(2/2) checking available disk space [###########################################################################] 100%
(1/1) removing sysvinit [###########################################################################] 100%
(1/1) installing systemd-sysvcompat [###########################################################################] 100%
')

Checked init:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
[root@goflex sbin]# ls -l /sbin/ | grep init
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Nov 28 07:54 init -> ../usr/lib/systemd/systemd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Nov 28 07:54 telinit -> /usr/bin/systemctl
')

Rebooted crossing fingers and now it should be OK:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
[root@goflex ~]# cat /proc/1/comm
systemd
')

Unless you have any comments/recommendations, we can consider this solved.

Thanks,
Jérôme