Re: [gentoo-user] fsck check of /usr on a separate partition fails during boot

2018-01-14 Thread Andrew Barchuk
Thanks everyone, I've nailed it \o/ A more detailed story follows. After taking the approach of offloading / and /usr checks to Dracut I've disabled fsck for those partitions in /etc/fstab so OpenRC fsck wouldn't attempt to check /usr (and fail) by setting passno (the last column to 0). It

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck check of /usr on a separate partition fails during boot

2018-01-13 Thread Andrew Barchuk
Alan, > Not sure exactly what code does this, I assume it's something in OpenRC. It's OpenRC service fsck that performs filesystem checks on boot runlevel (/etc/init.d/fsck): $ rc-status boot | grep fsck fsck [ started ] ---

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck check of /usr on a separate partition fails during boot

2018-01-13 Thread Andrew Barchuk
Alan, Floyd, Thanks for your responses. Indeed I prefer to not maintain my own initramfs scripts. Right now I use genkernel initramfs but it seems to not be doing the right thing regarding /usr partition mounting (as I understand now it's not a problem with OpenRC fsck service). On the other hand

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck check of /usr on a separate partition fails during boot

2018-01-13 Thread Andrew Barchuk
John, > I bet you are using genkernel or gentoo-next to generate your initrd. Exactly. Probably got lost in between the file contents: > I use LVM on LUKS container for my partitions and an initramfs built with genkernel. > You might have better luck using Dracut Thank you for the suggestion,

[gentoo-user] fsck check of /usr on a separate partition fails during boot

2018-01-13 Thread Andrew Barchuk
Hi folks, I've posted about this problem to the forums[1] without luck despite getting more than a thousand views so I thought I'll try here. My system boots successfully but filesystem check fails for /usr which is on a separate partition: * Checking local filesystems ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No sleep when closing the lid (OpenRC)

2018-01-10 Thread Andrew Barchuk
Hi Melleus, Please share some details of the solution (e.g. reference the manuals) you've found so other people with similar problems that would stumble upon you email can use it too. --- Andrew

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I customize x11-terms/xterm?

2018-01-09 Thread Andrew Barchuk
Hi Grant, I believe this wiki page is what you're looking for: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/patches -- Andrew

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade confusion

2017-12-30 Thread Andrew Barchuk
Hi Jalus, > This is where I'm confused; which .config file (/proc/config.gz or > /boot/config) The two should have the same content most of the time. You can use either. config.gz needs to be decompressed (e.g. with zcat). > where in the kernel source tree do I put this file in. In the root of