Feature Request #2783
guix does not work with openrc after migration from systemd
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Description
Hi,
I migrated over to openrc and I can't run the guix daemon now because it was dependent on systemctl. How should I migrate guix over to openrc? Should I just create an init script or is there more I should be configuring? Any help is greatly appreciated!
History
Updated by bill-auger almost 4 years ago
it probably just needs some init scripts - surely you could
start it manually - i dont suppose that guix actually depends on
systemd
Updated by jgart almost 4 years ago
I was able to start guix manually with the following command:
~ $ sudo /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild
[sudo] password for jgart:
guile: warning: failed to install locale
accepted connection from pid 9654, user jgart
Should I reopen this as a feature request for adding an openrc init script to the guix packaged in the parabola repositories?
The version that is currently packaged here https://git.parabola.nu/abslibre.git/tree/pcr/guix looks like it only supports a system running systemd.
I imagine we would have to update that package to the current version and also add an init script for openrc.
Should there be a guix-openrc and a guix-systemd in the parabola repositories or should it be just be one package that asks the user which init script they want when installing via pacman?
Updated by jgart almost 4 years ago
I was able to register this openrc init file for guix-daemon successfully:
#! /sbin/openrc-run
description="guix build daemon"
command="/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix-daemon"
command_args="--build-users-group=guixbuild"
command_background=true
pidfile="/run/guix-daemon.pid"
It is a modification of this:
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/40601#28
I couldn't get the localstatedir syntax to run successfully in Vincent's code. The above works for me for now.
The following commands work as expected now on parabola:
sudo rc-update add guix-daemon
sudo rc-service guix-daemon start
sudo rc-service guix-daemon start
If anybody has suggestions and incites about this it would be greatly appreciated.
Updated by bill-auger almost 4 years ago
jgart -
this ticket is already set as a 'feature-request' - nothing more
need to happen until it is done
if there is a patch upstream, the best thing to do is to simply
wait to see if it is accepted - then the next release will have
it
my suggestion is the same as yesterday - if you would like to
help get the next release out; write to the mailing list so that
people will know, and perhaps offer advice - GNUtoo asked me
about this today, and he knows what needs to be done; but you
were not in the IRC channel at the time, so nothing happened - a
discussion on the mailing list would be the best way to get
things in motion