First and foremost, thank you Canek. On Tue, Jul 30 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 7:56 PM, <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: > >> I am a gnome-3 user, who wants to continue with gnome-3. >> [ I described my current state--beginning of wiki ] > > Sounds reasonable. > >> [ I asked about /etc/mtab and /proc/self/mounts > > If you switch to systemd, you will need to make /etc/mtab a symlink to > /proc/self/mounts. Done. >> After that comes the big one >> >> emerge systemd >> USE="... systemd ..." >> emerge --newuse ... [ a change from previous msg ] >> /etc/init.d/udev restart >> >> Can the system be rebooted at this point (I realize init will still not >> use systemd) or must the entire conversion (including changing init) be >> completed before the system is bootable? I am hoping it is the former. > > If you reboot [now], I don't believe there is any chance your system > will boot up correctly. I see. > /etc/init.d/udev is installed by sys-fs/udev; sys-apps/systemd doesn't > provide anything similar. I don't understand. *After* installing systemd (and setting the USE and executing the emerge --newuse ...), the wiki tells you to /etc/init.d/udev restart Emerging systemd unmerges udev so how can I do the restart? > I recommend installing everything necessary (and uninstalling > everything that is not) before trying the reboot. How far do I have to get in the wiki? I am hoping to do smaller chunks so that if I have to back out a step (using a bootable CD) to restore "bootability" to the system, it won't take too long. In particular do I have to switch init to /usr/lib/systemd/systemd before I can boot. I know you have had systemd installed for a long time. Did you always have the init= line or were you for a while running openrc with systemd installed? > Also, I would do the whole shebang in a one step, removing all the > masked packages you did. You can try to boot to multi-user.target > instead of graphical.target, if you want to test that systemd works > correctly independently of GNOME. I am not so worried about gnome coming up. If the system boots and I can get the 6 text terminals, I can survive for quite a while with emacs and gnus. Again thanks for the help. allan
