Bug 790845 – gui-libs/display-manager-init: Boot "nox" parameter no longer works

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Eduardo Coutinho Scalabrin 2021-05-18 18:12:58 UTC]

When I had installed 'xdm' instead of 'display-manager-init' the parameter "nox" worked but now it doesn't work anymore.

# emerge --info

Portage 3.0.18 (python 3.8.9-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma, gcc-10.2.0, glibc-2.32-r7, 5.10.27-gentoo x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-5.10.27-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-4790_CPU_@_3.60GHz-with-glibc2.2.5
KiB Mem:    32826528 total,  28353544 free
KiB Swap:   33554428 total,  33554428 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Tue, 18 May 2021 14:30:01 +0000
Head commit of repository gentoo: b0f77cfa35301df50087a1774681983f619fbdd0
Timestamp of repository poly-c: Tue, 18 May 2021 10:34:56 +0000
sh bash 5.1_p8
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.35.2 p1) 2.35.2
ccache version 4.2.1 [disabled]
app-shells/bash:          5.1_p8::gentoo
dev-java/java-config:     2.3.1::gentoo
dev-lang/perl:            5.30.3::gentoo
dev-lang/python:          2.7.18_p9::gentoo, 3.8.9_p2::gentoo, 3.9.4_p1::gentoo
dev-lang/rust:            1.51.0-r2::gentoo
dev-util/ccache:          4.2.1::gentoo
dev-util/cmake:           3.18.5::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.7::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc:          0.42.1-r1::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.23::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13-r1::gentoo, 2.69-r5::gentoo
sys-devel/automake:       1.13.4-r2::gentoo, 1.16.2-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:       2.35.2::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:            10.2.0-r5::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:     2.4::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.6-r6::gentoo
sys-devel/make:           4.3::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 5.10::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.32-r7::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /usr/portage
    sync-type: rsync
    sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    priority: -1000
    sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: no
    sync-rsync-extra-opts: 
    sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1
    sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 24

local
    location: /usr/local/portage
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 15

brave-overlay
    location: /var/lib/layman/brave-overlay
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

hering-overlay
    location: /var/lib/layman/hering-overlay
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

poly-c
    location: /var/lib/layman/poly-c
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

spikyatlinux
    location: /var/lib/layman/spikyatlinux
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

torbrowser
    location: /var/lib/layman/torbrowser
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=haswell -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/cxoffice/etc/cxoffice.conf /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=haswell -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
ENV_UNSET="CARGO_HOME DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY GOBIN GOPATH PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"
FCFLAGS="-march=haswell -O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-docompress binpkg-dostrip binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles ipc-sandbox merge-sync metadata-transfer multilib-strict network-sandbox news parallel-fetch pid-sandbox preserve-libs protect-owned qa-unresolved-soname-deps sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-march=haswell -O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.c3sl.ufpr.br/ http://mirrors.evowise.com/gentoo/ https://gentoo.c3sl.ufpr.br/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j9"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_BINHOST="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
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Unset:  CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, RUSTFLAGS

[Comment 1 Ionen Wolkens 2021-05-19 18:24:50 UTC]

It was replaced by "nogui" given it's intended to be used by things other than X. Please verify that it works as intended.

Still assigning just in case backward compat is something to be considered (unsure how widespread usage of nox is, maybe not worth it).

[Comment 2 Eduardo Coutinho Scalabrin 2021-05-19 20:57:54 UTC]

(In reply to Ionen Wolkens from comment #1)
> It was replaced by "nogui" given it's intended to be used by things other
> than X. Please verify that it works as intended.
> 
> Still assigning just in case backward compat is something to be considered
> (unsure how widespread usage of nox is, maybe not worth it).

Hello, Ionen!

The 'nogui' parameter worked perfectly for me, thanks for your help!

[Comment 3 Piotr Karbowski (RETIRED) 2022-05-28 10:05:18 UTC]

Closing with WONTFIX since we do have 'nogui' instead.