[OE-core] /sbin/init not found in oe-core

[Paul Eggleton]

On Wednesday 30 May 2012 16:48:00 Brandon Stafford wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> 
wrote:
> > On 5/25/12 3:52 PM, Brandon Stafford wrote:
> >> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Mark Hatle<mark.hatle at windriver.com> 
 wrote:
> >>>> >>  Has the boot process changed? What should I be doing instead of
> >>>> >>  calling /sbin/init?
> >>> > 
> >>> >  You should check your new rootfs.  is there anything called init on
> >>> > it, even in a different directory?
> >> 
> >> So far as I can tell, there is no file named init in the filesystem.
> >> 
> >>> >  Are you using meta-oe and systemd?
> >> 
> >> meta-oe: yes
> >> systemd: only if it is enabled by default, so I don't think so. I can
> >> still see /etc/rc[0-5].d, so I think that means Sys V is still in
> >> place.
> > 
> > meta-oe may have systemd enabled by default, but I'm not sure.  I haven't
> > used it recently enough to know for sure.> 
> >>> >  You should have some type of an init in the new filesystem.. if not,
> >>> > then
> >>> >  something is wrong with your image and you'll need to diagnose that
> >>> > first.
> >> 
> >> Sounds like I have something amiss with my filesystem.
> 
> Just to wrap this up for the sake of future googlers: in my image
> recipe, I was doing this:
> 
>     inherit image
> 
> instead of:
> 
>     inherit core-image
> 
> I had also omitted task-core-basic from my IMAGE_INSTALL list. I'm not
> certain which solved the problem, but /sbin/init definitely now
> exists.

Almost certainly the latter rather than the former - inheriting image rather 
than core-image is perfectly OK, but without task-core-basic there's a whole 
heap of things you won't get including task-core-initscripts which includes 
sysvinit.

Sorry you had to go through pain here but glad you solved it in the end :)

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre