After initial installation of Gentoo operating system (following instructions), the initrd and kernel are properly loaded, but OpenRC fails to start any services. I have repeated the process twice with installing Gentoo freshly to ensure there was not something improperly done or missed. Upon loading of the kernel, the following is displayed on the terminal: ------------------------------------------- INIT: version 2.88 booting OpenRC 0.11.8 is starting up Gentoo Linux (i686) Press I to enter interactive boot mode * /proc is already mounted * /Mounting /run ... * /run/openrc: creating directory * /run/lock: creating directory * /run/lock: correcting owner * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 This is (none).unknown_domain (Linux i686 3.8.13-gentoo) 15:49:14 (none) login: ------------------------------------------- The system does not attempt to start any of the services. Modifying rc.conf to allow interactive boot shows that, immediately following "Caching service dependencies," OpenRC asks if it should start each of the init scripts. Selecting to load the service results in no output. INIT is properly handling the inittab and executing the OpenRC against each runlevel as appropriate, but OpenRC does not appear to be successfully executing the scripts when it tries to. Because none of the sysinit scripts are actually run, the system boots to a read-only root file system. It is possible to then remount as read-write and attempt to mount /boot, etc. Each init script references /sbin/runscript, which is a symbolic link to /sbin/rc. Executing runscript states "runscript should not be run directly", implying that the execution of this is working properly. Attempting to directly start any of the services, starting with those in sysinit, result in "* WARNING: <service> is already starting". It is possible to perform any of the functions of the script manually without executing the script, such as mounting the root file system as read/write, bringing up the network interface, etc. /etc/fstab: ------------------------------------------- /dev/sda1 /boot ext4 noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/sda3 / ext4 noatime 0 1 /dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0 ------------------------------------------- rc-status after boot: ------------------------------------------- Runlevel: default dmeventd [ stopped ] lvm [ stopped ] syslog-ng [ stopped ] vixie-cron [ stopped ] dhcpcd [ stopped ] net.eth0 [ stopped ] sshd [ stopped ] netmount [ stopped ] lvm-monitoring [ stopped ] mdadm [ stopped ] nscd [ stopped ] local [ stopped ] Runlevel: shutdown savecache [ stopped ] killprocs [ stopped ] mount-ro [ stopped ] Runlevel: sysinit dmesg [ stopped ] udev-mount [ stopped ] devfs [ stopped ] sysfs [ stopped ] udev [ stopped ] Runlevel: boot hwclock [ stopped ] modules [ stopped ] fsck [ stopped ] root [ stopped ] mtab [ stopped ] swap [ stopped ] localmount [ stopped ] sysctl [ stopped ] bootmisc [ stopped ] termencoding [ stopped ] keymaps [ stopped ] hostname [ stopped ] net.lo [ stopped ] tmpfiles.setup [ stopped ] urandom [ stopped ] procfs [ stopped ] swapfiles [ stopped ] Dynamic Runlevel: hotplugged Dynamic Runlevel: needed Dynamic Runlevel: manual ------------------------------------------- grub.conf: ------------------------------------------- default 0 timeout 5 #splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Gentoo Linux 3.8.13 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-3.8.13-gentoo rootfstype=ext4 root=/dev/sda3 initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-3.8.13-gentoo # vim:ft=conf: ------------------------------------------- rc-update show: ------------------------------------------- bootmisc | boot devfs | sysinit dhcpcd | default dmesg | sysinit dmeventd | default fsck | boot hostname | boot hwclock | boot keymaps | boot killprocs | shutdown local | default localmount | boot lvm | default lvm-monitoring | default mdadm | default modules | boot mount-ro | shutdown mtab | boot net.eth0 | default net.lo | boot netmount | default nscd | default procfs | boot root | boot savecache | shutdown sshd | default swap | boot swapfiles | boot sysctl | boot sysfs | sysinit syslog-ng | default termencoding | boot tmpfiles.setup | boot udev | sysinit udev-mount | sysinit urandom | boot vixie-cron | default ------------------------------------------- Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install (base) Gentoo from LiveCD 2. Boot into kernel Actual Results: System displays login prompt without having run any sysinit, boot, or default runlevel init scripts. Expected Results: System will display login prompt having properly run all init scripts. 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In troubleshooting this after the first installation (I am now on my second installation), I decided to see if the scripts were actually being executed. I inserted into the start function of each of the sysinit scripts a statement that would echo some text to the tty1. When in interactive mode, it asked to execute the scripts (as I stated), but there was no output from the command to the terminal. This suggest that even if OpenRC was attempting to execute the script, it never actually executed the code. I also double and triple checked the symlinks and permissions on everything. But since I can execute them from the command prompt and they return the warning pasted in the description, that suggests it isn't the problem.
Can youattach a full rc log, please. You can done it by setting rc_logger="YES" rc_log_path="/var/log/rc.log" in /etc/rc.conf file. One more question is it a container or a "native" system?
Closing due to no response from the reporter. If this is still an issue, feel free to re-open and provide the requested information.
