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Artix Linux => Package management => Topic started by: riri on 01 September 2023, 11:22:11

Title: [ABANDONNED] Errors since last update, no display available, among others
Post by: riri on 01 September 2023, 11:22:11
Hi

I ran an update this morning (my last one was the 28th of august). Since I get weird errors.
I cannot show much as I am on a live setup now.

I short, I get errors about /dev/null: Permission denied.
Indeed /dev/null is crw------- for root/root.

I tried to downgrade system packages (linux, nvidia and deps, dinit), without success.
It looks like a global issue on permissions, but I can't see what.

Title: Re: Errors since last update, no display available, among others
Post by: ####### on 01 September 2023, 14:58:30
With openrc it looks like /dev/null is created and it's permissions set by /etc/init.d/devfs which is one of the openrc boot service files and  part of the openrc package:
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                # udevd will dup its stdin/stdout/stderr to /dev/null
                # and we do not want a file which gets buffered in ram
                [ -c /dev/null ] || mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3

Title: Re: Errors since last update, no display available, among others
Post by: riri on 02 September 2023, 12:42:44
Well, I'm too old and tired to continue handling these kind of things.
I thought still being a deep tweaker but I realized it's not my cup of tea anymore.
Thus I revert back to a systemd Arch based system.

Thanks for help still, and long life to Artix o_/
Title: Re: [ABANDONNED] Errors since last update, no display available, among others
Post by: gripped on 02 September 2023, 13:25:12
Well, I'm too old and tired to continue handling these kind of things.
I thought still being a deep tweaker but I realized it's not my cup of tea anymore.
Thus I revert back to a systemd Arch based system.

Thanks for help still, and long life to Artix o_/
Caveat emptor.
The whole reason I came back to Artix the second time was because I got sick and tired handling "these kind of things" with systemd and arch.
Title: Re: [ABANDONNED] Errors since last update, no display available, among others
Post by: lq on 02 September 2023, 14:09:18
Well, I'm too old and tired to continue handling these kind of things.

https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,5447.msg34621.html#msg34621

YMMD  ;D  ;D  ;D
Title: Re: [ABANDONNED] Errors since last update, no display available, among others
Post by: ####### on 02 September 2023, 15:28:03
If you wanted a trouble free install then use OpenRC or possibly Runit, Dinit is a much more recent addition here so is more likely to throw up occasional development challenges to users. As OpenRC creates /dev/null it's likely this was a Dinit related problem and the relevant service is not running for whatever reason, due to your config or something else. I generally found systemd to cause more problems than non-systemd, but ymmv!  ;D
Title: Re: [ABANDONNED] Errors since last update, no display available, among others
Post by: riri on 03 September 2023, 10:31:24

https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,5447.msg34621.html#msg34621

YMMD  ;D  ;D  ;D

Well, I quote myself here too ;-)
Quote from: riri
I thought still being a deep tweaker but I realized it's not my cup of tea anymore.

As ###### said, MMMV, and who knows, maybe I'll get tired of systemd again and will revert back to Artix someday.