[Mageia-dev] ANN: For the brave. systemd v185 in cauldron updates_testing

Mon Jun 18 23:04:28 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 18/06/12 09:11 did gyre and gimble:
+> 'Twas brillig, and JA Magallón at 18/06/12 07:03 did gyre and gimble:
+>> On 06/18/2012 01:15 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+>>> Hi,
+>>>
+>>> I've just submitted systemd v185 to updates_testing.
+>>>
+>>> There are several important changes worth noting:
+>>>   1. "systemd-sysvinit" has been merged into the main "systemd" package
+>>> thus effectively making systemd the only choice for booting.
+>>>   2. "systemd" package now contains systemd-udevd binary thus replacing
+>>> the separate udev package (I see no reason to keep the binaries in
+>>> separate packages).
+>>>   3. The libudev major number has been bumped so several packages will
+>>> need rebuilt when this hits main, but so far I've only rebuilt lvm2 for
+>>> updates_testing. This seems to be enough for basic testing (I have LVM
+>>> here).
+>>>   4. Due to the new udevd path, dracut needed updating too. I've updated
+>>> this and submitted to release (as it's backwards compatible). At a later
+>>> date I'll update to latest dracut.
+>>>
+>>> Please ensure you are capable of restoring your system in the event of
+>>> things messing up. This will mean booting and manually downgrading
+>>> packages and reinstalling the older udev package.
+>>>
+>>> If all is well, this will go into cauldron at the end of the week.
+>>
+>> It seems to work ok in my netbook, just two minor problems:
+>>
+>> - in install:
+>>    7/28: systemd              
+>> #############################################
+>>    /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.bM0Lmo: line 5: /usr/bin/systemctl: No such file or
+>> directory
+>>   in post-install, systemctl is already moved to /bin
+> 
+> Ahh yes, this was me forgetting to revert a few paths. Dexter moved
+> everything to /usr (which I support) but that requires a bigger change
+> overall for other parts of the system which we'll need to plan a bit
+> more holistically I think. It will come soon enough but I wanted to get
+> this merged version in sooner rather than later.
+> 
+>> - keyboard layout under Gnome got reset to English (from Spanish).
+>> Changed manually under
+>>   system settings and fine again.
+> 
+> Interesting. Does this new setting survive a reboot? Does the new
+> mapping work at the system level (i.e. is the layout respected in GDM)?
+> 
+> Do you have a /etc/vconsole.conf file?
+
+OK, so I don't really understand why it's broken. I think it's maybe a
+regression in that X is no longer inheriting settings from the console,
+but I think longer term this is a valid thing (maybe there will not be a
+console to inherit from in the future?)
+
+So, it seems that systemd-localed will write an Xorg snippet into
+/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf when the keyboard is set. Thus
+your setting of it via the Gnome System Settings will have written this
+file (can you confirm it exists?) and it will remain there for the
+remaining boots.
+
+Longer term, we need to make sure the installer runs this daemon for
+fresh installs. And perhaps we should run it on upgrade automatically
+too to ensure it's written as needed.
+
+Cheers
+
+Col
+
+
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+
+Colin Guthrie
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