On Wed, 23 May 2018 16:37:18 -1000
Joel Roth <joelz@???> wrote:

> Hi knowledgeable colleagues!
>
> I recently upgraded to ascii, due to some itch I can't
> quite remember now ;-)
>
> Everything was fine, till I rebooted.
>
> I got some errors during boot:
>
> INIT: cannot execute "/usr/sbin/runsvdir-start"
> (this line repeated)

IIRC runsvdir is from daemontools. Are you supervising with daemontools?


>
> INIT: Id "SV" respawning too fast, disabled for 5 minutes

In the daemontools directory for the desktop manager (xdm or gdm or
whatever), put a sleep 1 after the exec xdm or whatever. No more "too
fast".

Better yet, disable the desktop manager directory with a down file or
whatever (long time since daemontools). Then run X with startx, and
troubleshoot from that level before restoring the "boot directly to X"
thing.

>
> Also, no such file, /usr/sbin/runsvdir-start:
>
> $ ls /usr/sbin/run*
>
> /usr/sbin/runq
> /usr/sbin/runsvchdir
>
> Later, when I tried 'startx', the Xserver failed to start:

Others have commented on the preceding, mostly centering on
executability by normal user.

SteveT

Steve Litt
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