systemd

[Dennis Veatch]

On 02/19/2012 09:40 AM, Jean Bruenn wrote:
> Hello Dan,
>
> try recompiling systemd maybe with less options (optional depends)
> there _has_ to be a binary somewhere - If it's not there (updatedb&&
> locate systemd" or "lvu install systemd") it won't work - Then look
> for some errors in the compile log (lvu should have an option to check
> that). Also, please feel free to join IRC and bug dveatch or me (wdp)
> - dveatch recently had some issues with systemd as well and might be
> able to help you.
>
> For the binary path - yeah, take the lvu edit approach and if you like,
> please "lvu submit systemd" it if it really takes the new path by doing
> so, however make sure that only binaries gets installed in /sbin
>
> Jean
>
>
> On Sun, 19 Feb 2012
> 07:23:35 -0700 Dan Kociela<dkociela at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Hi Jean,
>> Thanks for your response. "lvu installed" shows:42.
>>
>>   Apparently the default installation is to /usr/bin. However, there
>> is no single systemd binary. There are a collection of 13 binaries
>> (systemd-analyze, systemd-ask-password, systemd-cat, systemd-cgls,
>> systemd-cgtop, etc).
>>
>> I'm wondering if symlinks to each binary would work, or if using "lvu
>> edit" and changing the installation "./configure --prefix=/sbin", or
>> changing the bootloader to use "init=/usr/bin/systemd" would be best.
>>
>> What do you think? And thank you for your help.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Jean Bruenn
>> <jean.bruenn at ip-minds.de>wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Dan,
>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure thats because of systemd changing the binary path
>>> all two weeks. Please issue
>>>
>>> lvu installed systemd
>>>
>>> If it tells you systemd is not installed, something went wrong. Then
>>> please issue:
>>>
>>> lvu install systemd
>>>
>>> And check where the binary went. I've seen it lying around
>>> in /usr/bin /bin /sbin. If you have found it, create a symlink from
>>> it to /sbin, make sure your bootloader will use init=/sbin/systemd
>>> and try again.
>>>
>>> Jean
>>>
>>> On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:51:15 -0700 Dan Kociela
>>> <dkociela at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I have the feeling that I'm missing something simple but I have
>>>> installed systemd and when I issue "systemctl" I get " failed to
>>>> get dbus connection: no connection to service manager". ps aux
>>>> shows that dbus and udev are both running. "systemd --test"
>>>> results in "systemd: command not found". Any clues are welcome.
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> dan
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jean Bruenn<jean.bruenn at ip-minds.de>

The systemd executable path has changed with version 42. It now lives in;

/usr/lib/systemd/systemd

So point your lilo or grub append there. It works fine on x86_64 + lilo.


-- 
Dennis `stumbles` Veatch
Lunar Linux Developer
http://www.lunar-linux.org/