[artix-general] [s6] not booting/rebooting laptop

Dudemanguy dudemanguy at artixlinux.org
Thu Sep 24 02:55:30 CEST 2020


On 9/23/20 7:49 PM, Dudemanguy via artix-general wrote:> "exec s6-rc 
-bda change"

Wait, on second thought. Maybe this is the problem after all?
Checking the skarnet documentation:

 >-b : blocking lock. If the service database is currently being used by
 >another program, s6-rc will wait until that other program has released
 >its lock on the database, then proceed. By default, s6-rc fails with an
 >error message if the service database is currently in use. The default
 >is the safe behaviour: for instance, it will correctly detect and fail
 >nested s6-rc invocations (which are an admin error), whereas s6-rc -b
 >would deadlock in such a case.
https://skarnet.org/software/s6-rc/s6-rc.html

Perhaps you somehow have a nest s6-rc invocation causing a deadlock?
That would explain it.


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