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geekmiki

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Registered: 2011-10-10

Posts: 72

[SOLVED]systemd 204-1 update and e4rat

Hi,

I just updated systemd to 204-1 and the /bin/systemd symlink was removed (as announced when updating the package).

I am also using e4rat (specifically e4rat-preload-lite from AUR) that was correctly loading systemd before the update.

Since the /bin/systemd symlink was removed I changed in /etc/e4rat.conf the init line to:

init /usr/lib/systemd/systemd

The problem is that upon reboot systemd isn't found because it's still being loaded from /bin/systemd.

Something I missed apparently or isn't e4rat-preload-lite reading /etc/e4rat.conf ?

Thank you in advance for your help!

Last edited by geekmiki (2013-05-12 23:01:31)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED]systemd 204-1 update and e4rat

Try running the script from the PKGBUILD https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/e4/e … e/PKGBUILD

  echo "Searching for init configuration"
  e4rat_init=`grep init /etc/e4rat.conf | grep -v ";" | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
  src_init=`grep "#define INIT" e4rat-preload-lite.c | grep -v grep | awk '{print $3}'`
  echo " -> $e4rat_init"

by hand to try things out.

I have no idea how e4rat works, so this is just a guess.

geekmiki

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Registered: 2011-10-10

Posts: 72

Re: [SOLVED]systemd 204-1 update and e4rat

Thanks for your help...

I should've checked the PKGBUILD... Rebuilding it solved the problem, since e4rat-preload-lite reads e4rat.conf upon building to get the init parameter.

fsckd

Forum Fellow

Registered: 2009-06-15

Posts: 4,173

Re: [SOLVED]systemd 204-1 update and e4rat

I moved the discussion on the removal of /bin/systemd to its own thread. Continue that discussion there. Thanks.

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