Re: [DNG] Devuan-ascii: Upgrading runit to 2.1.2-5 can hose your system

2016-08-13 Thread Fred DC
On 12/08/2016 19:47, Steve Litt wrote: Hi Steve [big snip] Thanks for your valued thought but I consider the incident "water under the bridge". All what I wanted is to warn PID 1 'runit' users that the upgrading is a botched affair. As I said, I was able to recover the system but belive me, its

Re: [DNG] Devuan-ascii: Upgrading runit to 2.1.2-5 can hose your system

2016-08-12 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > LOL, you're right. The bootloader or UEFIwhatever starts the kernel. Everyone who's read your excellent troubleshooters.com artlces about inits figured out that your fingers were merely on autopilot or something, but you _definitely_ knew that

Re: [DNG] Devuan-ascii: Upgrading runit to 2.1.2-5 can hose your system

2016-08-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 12 Aug 2016 20:34:07 +0200 Harald Arnesen wrote: > Steve Litt [2016-08-12 19:47]: > > > I don't understand. Do you perhaps mean that sysvinit is PID1, and > > you use runit strictly as a process supervisor? The reason I ask > > this is, whatever acts as PID1 is what

Re: [DNG] Devuan-ascii: Upgrading runit to 2.1.2-5 can hose your system

2016-08-12 Thread Edward Bartolo
Harald Arnesen wrote: << Steve Litt [2016-08-12 19:47]: > I don't understand. Do you perhaps mean that sysvinit is PID1, and you > use runit strictly as a process supervisor? The reason I ask this is, > whatever acts as PID1 is what boots the kernel. No. The kernel starts PID1. >> Steve Litt

Re: [DNG] Devuan-ascii: Upgrading runit to 2.1.2-5 can hose your system

2016-08-12 Thread Harald Arnesen
Steve Litt [2016-08-12 19:47]: > I don't understand. Do you perhaps mean that sysvinit is PID1, and you > use runit strictly as a process supervisor? The reason I ask this is, > whatever acts as PID1 is what boots the kernel. No. The kernel starts PID1. -- Hilsen Harald

Re: [DNG] Devuan-ascii: Upgrading runit to 2.1.2-5 can hose your system

2016-08-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 12 Aug 2016 11:32:41 +0200 Fred DC wrote: > Hi, > > My apololgies for sounding a bit emotional about this issue. The behavior of the poetterists is enough to make anybody indignant. > > If, up to now, you have "runit" running as pid 1 and managed to > maintain

[DNG] Devuan-ascii: Upgrading runit to 2.1.2-5 can hose your system

2016-08-12 Thread Fred DC
Hi, My apololgies for sounding a bit emotional about this issue. If, up to now, you have "runit" running as pid 1 and managed to maintain the ability to boot from the kernel commandline using the sysv-init read on. The latest update to package 'runit' *wipes* out the 2 binaries /sbin/runit-init