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deepforest

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[SOLVED] Daedalus. Can i switch from openrc to runit without reinstall os?

If it possible, how do this?

Thanks.

nahkhiirmees

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Re: [SOLVED] Daedalus. Can i switch from openrc to runit without reinstall os?

Not sure if this helps, but: have you tried dpkg -reconfigure ?

deepforest

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Re: [SOLVED] Daedalus. Can i switch from openrc to runit without reinstall os?

Thanks for reply
Are you mean install runit and do dpkg-reconfigure openrc or dpkg-reconfigure runit?
Is it safe, i am aware that i can broke os by this commands?

nahkhiirmees

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Re: [SOLVED] Daedalus. Can i switch from openrc to runit without reinstall os?

Haven't actually tried to change the init system after the install.
And after some thinking, update-alternatives sounds more like what deepforest is after.

Lorenzo

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Re: [SOLVED] Daedalus. Can i switch from openrc to runit without reinstall os?

Hi,

If it possible, how do this?

try the following

apt-get install runit-init

and then reboot the system

reboot

if plain 'reboot' doesn't work you may have to call
/usr/sbin/openrc-shutdown with appropriate options to reboot into runit

I tested sysv --> runit and going back to sysv, never tested from
openrc but it should work.

Best,
Lorenzo

deepforest

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Re: [SOLVED] Daedalus. Can i switch from openrc to runit without reinstall os?

@Lorenzo
Thanks man!
it seems to have worked But i not feeling any difference, only boot log looks another.
its was easy.
And to move back i must uninstall runit-init and make dpkg-reconfigure openrc or reinstall openrc?

Last edited by deepforest (2024-04-25 20:48:33)

Lorenzo

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Re: [SOLVED] Daedalus. Can i switch from openrc to runit without reinstall os?

it seems to have worked smile But i not feeling any difference, only boot log looks another.
its was easy.

did you installed also runit-services package?

And to move back i must uninstall runit-init and make dpkg-reconfigure openrc or reinstall openrc?

I don't think dpkg-reconfigure has any use here; reinstall openrc + sysvinit-core should do it.
Then, to reboot from runit into openrc call

/lib/runit/runit-init 6

deepforest

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Re: [SOLVED] Daedalus. Can i switch from openrc to runit without reinstall os?

did you installed also runit-services package?

idk, only this apt-get install runit-init

I don't think dpkg-reconfigure has any use here; reinstall openrc + sysvinit-core should do it.
Then, to reboot from runit into openrc call

Thanks, reinstall only openrc? Why you mentioned +sysvinit-core?

Lorenzo

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Re: [SOLVED] Daedalus. Can i switch from openrc to runit without reinstall os?

Thanks, reinstall only openrc? Why you mentioned +sysvinit-core?

Originally openrc used to run on top of sysvinit, so you need sysvinit-core + openrc;
recently openrc got it's own init, so it can run without sysvinit.
I'm not sure what the openrc deb package does, if you install openrc without sysvinit-core
just make sure that /sbin/init points to somewhere that make sense for openrc, like
maybe

/usr/sbin/openrc-init

I never used openrc so I'm more or less guessing the above.

deepforest

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Re: [SOLVED] Daedalus. Can i switch from openrc to runit without reinstall os?

i am trying move back to open rc,
already reinstall openrc and sysvinit-core,
system booting good in openrc,
but why i see this?

root@home:/home/freeartist-devuan# dpkg-reconfigure openrc
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: openrc is broken or not fully installed
root@home:/home/freeartist-devuan# 

freeartist-devuan@home:~$ sudo su
[sudo] password for freeartist-devuan: 
root@home:/home/freeartist-devuan# dpkg-reconfigure openrc
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: openrc is broken or not fully installed
root@home:/home/freeartist-devuan# apt install openrc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
openrc is already the newest version (0.45.2-2).
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  sysuser-helper
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 23 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
Setting up openrc (0.45.2-2) ...
Add existing services ...
 * rc-update: killprocs already installed in runlevel `recovery'; skipping
 * rc-update: single already installed in runlevel `recovery'; skipping
 * rc-update: bootlogs already installed in runlevel `recovery'; skipping
 * rc-update: console-setup.sh already installed in runlevel `default'; skipping
 * rc-update: binfmt-support already installed in runlevel `default'; skipping
 * rc-update: mono-xsp4 already installed in runlevel `default'; skipping
 * rc-update: pulseaudio-enable-autospawn already installed in runlevel `default'; skipping
 * rc-update: rsyslog already installed in runlevel `default'; skipping
 * rc-update: sudo already installed in runlevel `default'; skipping
 * rc-update: uuidd already installed in runlevel `default'; skipping
 * rc-update: service `acpid' is not executable
dpkg: error processing package openrc (--configure):
 installed openrc package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of sysvinit-core:
 sysvinit-core depends on sysv-rc | openrc | file-rc; however:
  Package sysv-rc is not installed.
  Package openrc is not configured yet.
  Package file-rc is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package sysvinit-core (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 openrc
 sysvinit-core
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@home:/home/freeartist-devuan# 

Last edited by deepforest (2024-04-30 20:24:01)

Lorenzo

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Re: [SOLVED] Daedalus. Can i switch from openrc to runit without reinstall os?

it looks like there is a problem with openrc postinstall script, likely a bug. As already mentioned, I know very few about openrc so I don't have an explanation. I suggest you open a bug report on openrc package linking this page

Lorenzo

Kristof12

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Re: [SOLVED] Daedalus. Can i switch from openrc to runit without reinstall os?

A file that is not executable on /etc/init.d/ breaks openrc installation for some reason, needs to make executable first or move to another directory

Lorenzo

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Re: [SOLVED] Daedalus. Can i switch from openrc to runit without reinstall os?

A file that is not executable on /etc/init.d/ breaks openrc installation for some reason, needs to make executable first or move to another directory

Please, next time, report bug like this! Nobody reports = nobody fixes.
It's now fixed in unstable/openrc 0.54-2
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … ug=1070167