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Ermiq

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Registered: 2022-02-06

Posts: 8  

[Excalibur/Testing] sed is now in /usr/bin and it breaks runit boot.

After recent upgrade of sed package it is now installed in /usr/bin/sed instead of the /bin/sed and with runit-init it breaks the boot process at runit stage 1 because scripts in /etc/rcS.d/ fail to run due to sed: not found. 

I get this in boot process output:

- runit: enter stage: /etc/runit/1
/etc/rcS.d/S01mountkernfs.sh: 11: /lib/init/tmpfs.sh: sed: not found
/etc/rcS.d/S01mountkernfs.sh: 19: /lib/init/tmpfs.sh: sed: not found
...
/etc/rcS.d/S02eudev: 84: sed: not found
mkmod: missing operand after 'c!'
/etc/rcS.d/S03mountdevsubfs.sh: 11: /lib/init/tmpfs.sh: sed: not found
/etc/rcS.d/S03mountdevsubfs.sh: 19: /lib/init/tmpfs.sh: sed: not found
...
Setting up keyboard layout...done.
Starting boot logger: bootlogdActivating swap...done.
/etc/rcS.d/S01mountkernfs.sh: 11: /lib/init/tmpfs.sh: sed: not found
/etc/rcS.d/S01mountkernfs.sh: 19: /lib/init/tmpfs.sh: sed: not found
...

As a result everything is broken. X won't start due to no devices found and many other things don't work. 

I fixed it by symlinking sed to /bin/ with

ln -s /usr/bin/sed /bin/sed

Anyhow, I'm interested, is it a consequence of the ongoing "merged /usr" revolution? And is Devuan going to merge /usr in the end or will create workarounds for things like this?

steve_v

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Registered: 2018-01-11

Posts: 343  

Re: [Excalibur/Testing] sed is now in /usr/bin and it breaks runit boot.

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=46802#p46802

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