Greetings,
On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 13:10:39 +0100 I myself wrote:
> > ...
> > I have no split-usr system here to compare notes, but did you try
> > rebuilding
> > the sys-auth/elogind package just in case?
>
> Yes, I did. With and without USE flag "cgroup-hybrid" which was enabled
> by default up to version 246.10-r4 including but is disabled by default
> in version 252.9-r2. Didn't change anything :-(
Well, it turned out my tests have been a bit too quick and dirty. After
re-emerging package "sys-auth/elogind" the old "elogind-daemon" service
programme is still executing and thus clicking on Xfce's "Restart" ac-
tion button only tests the old binary in its new environment which -- of
course -- isn't guaranteed to work :-(
So between re-emerging and trying to reboot via Xfce's "Restart" action
button I need to reboot using "/sbin/reboot" to run the "elogind-daemon"
service programme I want to test.
Using this slightly more sophisticated test procedure I found that both
stable "sys-auth/elogind" ebuilds work while BOTH BINARY PACKAGES DON'T.
As already described in a previous mail, after pressing Xfce's "Restart"
action button the system stalls or loops indefinitely, and syslog con-
tains
2024-11-18T17:55:02+01:00 (5) kernel: elogind-daemon[1835]: System is
rebooting.
2024-11-18T17:55:02+01:00 (3) reboo[5780]: Failed to execute
/usr/bin/reboot: No such file or directory
which somehow suggests that "elogind" expects "systemd" to be installed,
while I'm using "openrc".
Quoting a slightly outdated Gentoo webpage [1]:
The available useflag settings and versions correspond to the
stable packages of the amd64/17.1/nomultilib (i.e., openrc),
amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma/systemd, and amd64/17.1/desktop/gnome/systemd
profiles.
Apart from the outdated "17.1", I'm on neither of these profiles:
$ eselect profile show
Current /etc/portage/make.profile symlink:
default/linux/amd64/23.0/split-usr/desktop
$
Is THIS the problem? But if -- as the above quote is suggesting -- the
binaries are coded to work with BOTH, "openrc" AND "systemd", then why
don't they work on my laptop?
Baffled,
Rainer
[1]: https://www.gentoo.org/news/2023/12/29/Gentoo-binary.html
