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[http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/openrc/ OpenRC] is an init system maintained by the Gentoo developers.  
{{Out of date|OpenRC is no longer supported --Frede H. 08:41, 25 September 2020 (CEST)}}
OpenRC is a dependency based init system that works with the system provided init program, normally sysvinit. It is not a replacement for sysvinit.


It can be used as an alternative to [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ systemd], for users that like more control over their system and do not want all the features that systemd provides and automatically activates.
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== Installation ==
==Unsupported on Manjaro==
{{Important|Manjaro does no longer support OpenRC}}
==Replacement==
{{Important|If you are looking for OpenRC capable Arch have a look at [https://artixlinux.org Artix Linux]}}


=== Method A ===
==What is OpenRC==
[https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC OpenRC] is a dependency based [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Init init] system maintained by the Gentoo developers, that works with the system provided init program, normally [http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sysvinit sysvinit]. It is not a replacement for sysvinit.


OpenRC is available in the '''Unstable''' branch of the Manjaro repositories. Users of that branch can install OpenRC in the following way:
It is an alternative to [http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ systemd] for users that like more control over their system, and do not want all the features that systemd provides and automatically activates.


1) Remove ''systemd-sysvcompat''
sudo pacman -R systemd-sysvcompat
2) Install ''sysvinit''
sudo pacman -S sysvinit
3) Install the ''openrc-base'' package
sudo pacman -S openrc-base
The output of the above command looks like the following:
$ sudo pacman -S openrc-base
:: There are 10 members in group openrc-base:
:: Repository community
    1) cronie-openrc  2) cryptsetup-openrc  3) dbus-openrc
    4) device-mapper-openrc  5) dhcpcd-openrc  6) glibc-openrc
    7) inetutils-openrc  8) lvm2-openrc  9) mdadm-openrc  10) openrc-core
Enter a selection (default=all):
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: openrc-core and systemd-sysvcompat are in conflict. Remove systemd-sysvcompat? [y/N] y
Packages (12): systemd-sysvcompat-212-3 [removal]  sysvinit-2.88-15
                cronie-openrc-20140614-1  cryptsetup-openrc-20140614-1
                dbus-openrc-20140614-1  device-mapper-openrc-20140614-1
                dhcpcd-openrc-20140614-1  glibc-openrc-20140614-1
                inetutils-openrc-20140614-1  lvm2-openrc-20140614-1
                mdadm-openrc-20140614-1  openrc-core-0.12.4-16
Total Download Size:    0.22 MiB
Total Installed Size:  1.19 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
=== Method B ===
OpenRC is currently available from the [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=openrc AUR], and from a binary repository courtesy Archbang and artoo.
To use the binary repos, add the following near the end of the ''/etc/pacman.conf'' file:
[openrc]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server = http://archbang.org/repos/$repo/$arch
[aur-nosystemd]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server = http://archbang.org/repos/$repo/$arch
And then run '''sudo pacman -Syu''' to synchronise the reposotories.
The main package to install is ''openrc-base''. It installs a binary init sysvinit (sysvinit), and the OpenRC base scripts and configuration.
(When installing from the AUR the package is [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/openrc-core/ openrc-core] rather than openrc-base. You may also need to install [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sysvinit/ sysvinit] manually if the build fails.)
To install the ''openrc-base'' package, use:
sudo pacman -S openrc-base
This package conflicts with ''systemd-sysvcompat'', which will be removed. The output looks like:
$ sudo pacman -S openrc-base
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: openrc-base and systemd-sysvcompat are in conflict. Remove systemd-sysvcompat? [y/N] y
Packages (3): systemd-sysvcompat-212-3 [removal]  sysvinit-2.88-15
              openrc-base-0.12.4-12
Total Download Size:    0.24 MiB
Total Installed Size:  0.96 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:      0.95 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
=== Common ===
After installing the ''openrc-base'' package, OpenRC should boot by default instead of systemd. Note that it will boot to a command line, as the service for a graphical display manager has not yet been installed.
On installing the ''openrc-base'' package, you may get messages like:
run 'rc-update add cronie default'
run 'rc-update add dhcpcd default'
Running these commands adds the services to the specified runlevels. For example if you run:
sudo rc-update add cronie default
Then the cronie service would be added to the default runelevel and would automatically be started at boot.
=== Additional packages ===
==== Display Manager ====
To boot to a graphical display manager, install the '''displaymanager-openrc''' package, and edit the ''/etc/conf.d/xdm'' file to specify your display manager. For example, to use '''lightdm''', I changed the line
DISPLAYMANAGER="xdm"
to
DISPLAYMANAGER="lightdm"
''Note:''
''lightdm'' and a ''lightdm-greeter'' should be installed and configured to use lightdm as display manager.
An alternative to ''lightdm'' that I find simpler is [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LXDM LXDM]. However the version in the repos does not automatically start a ck-session on login; alternative [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lxdm-consolekit/ lxdm-consolekit] from the [[AUR]] can be used.
==== Audio (ALSA) ====
The '''alsa-utils-openrc''' package can be installed. After installing it run:
sudo rc-update add alsasound default
to automatically start Alsa at boot.
==== Network Manager ====
By default ''dhcpcd'' is enabled. However if you use Wifi to connect, or need a graphical network applet, then '''networkmanager-openrc''' can be installed.
The ''networkmanager-openrc'' replaces the normal networkmanager package in the repos. Also, it requires ''consolekit'' and ''polkit-consolekit'', which replaces the normal polkit from the repos.
If ''networkmanager-openrc'' from the AB repos doesnt work for you and conlicts with existing packages, try out [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/networkmanager-openrc/ networkmanager-openrc] from the AUR.
==== Consolekit ====
You may also wish to install '''consolekit-openrc''', which supports multi-user setups, mounting of partitions by unauthorised users, etc. See the [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ConsoleKit Gentoo-Wiki] for more details.
Only caveat of installing consolekit is that it requires ''polkit-consolekit'', which conflicts with the normal polkit; so if you boot to systemd you wont be able to mount partitions if you are not in the storage group.
However using the command line, or as root user, one can mount any partition or perform most functions that are made available to the normal user via polkit. See the [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Polkit Arch-wiki] for more details.
==== openrc-desktop ====
The ''openrc-desktop'' package can be used to install most of the above desktop related packages in one go. For example,
$ sudo pacman -S openrc-desktop
:: There are 6 members in group openrc-desktop:
:: Repository community
    1) acpid-openrc  2) alsa-utils-openrc  3) avahi-openrc  4) consolekit-openrc
    5) displaymanager-openrc  6) gpm-openrc
Enter a selection (default=all):
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Packages (6): acpid-openrc-20140614-1  alsa-utils-openrc-20140614-1
              avahi-openrc-20140614-1  consolekit-openrc-20140614-1
              displaymanager-openrc-20140614-1  gpm-openrc-20140614-1
Total Installed Size:  0.12 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:      0.00 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
==== Others ====
For acpi support '''acpid-openrc''' can be installed and enabled.
For running the ''ps'' command, the '''procps-ng-nosystemd / procps-ng-eudev''' package can be installed.
To suspend and hibernate via the command line, '''pm-utils''' can be installed. You may also need the '''upower-nosystemd-pm-utils / upower-eudev-pm-utils''' package if suspend and hibernate does not work. Also see the [[Using_OpenRC,_an_alternative_to_systemd#Troubleshooting | troubleshooting]] section for enabling swap.
== Troubleshooting ==
When booting, you may get errors like:
tmpfiles: ignoring invalid entry on line 32 of `/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d//legacy.conf'
tmpfiles: ignoring invalid entry on line 33 of `/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d//legacy.conf'
tmpfiles: ignoring invalid entry on line 34 of `/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d//legacy.conf'
tmpfiles: ignoring invalid entry on line 11 of `/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d//systemd-nologin.conf'
tmpfiles: ignoring invalid entry on line 18 of `/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d//x11.conf'
To correct, I removed the lines referenced in the above files. These errors have been fixed by the developers on [https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/issues/17 github], and should be available in the next release.
The boot logs for OpenRC are stored in ''/var/log/rc.log''
If you were using systemd on a '''GPT''' partitioned hard disk, then you may need to enable swap via ''/etc/fstab''. This is so because systemd handled swap automatically on GPT partitions, and gave error if it was mounted via fstab.
I added the following entry to my ''/etc/fstab''
# /dev/sda10
UUID=0c3e9434-bc5c-461c-a5e4-4e9fe5f9a149 swap swap sw 0 0
Also, systemd used to set a ''tmpfs'' by default; to set it manually via ''/etc/fstab'', I added the following lines:
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs  nodev,nosuid          0  0
See the [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fstab#tmpfs Arch Wiki] for more details.
== Replacing systemd with eudev (for advanced users) ==
With OpenRC being used as init system, the role of systemd is reduced to that of a [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev udev] provider, and for compatibility reasons.
[http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/eudev/ eudev], developed by the Gentoo folks, can be used as replacement. Note that removing systemd could cause incompatibilities with existing software, hence its advertised as being for advanced / minimalistic users.
Step 1) Install ''eudev-openrc''
sudo pacman -S eudev-openrc
The output looks like the following:
$ sudo pacman -S eudev-openrc
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: eudev and systemd are in conflict. Remove systemd? [y/N] y
:: eudev and libsystemd are in conflict. Remove libsystemd? [y/N] y
Packages (4): eudev-1.7-3  libsystemd-212-3 [removal]  systemd-212-3 [removal]
              eudev-openrc-20140614-1
Total Download Size:    0.83 MiB
Total Installed Size:  6.46 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:      -10.81 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
Step 2) Install ''dbus-eudev / dbus-nosystemd''
sudo pacman -S dbus-eudev
The output looks like the following:
$ sudo pacman -S dbus-eudev
[sudo] password for aaditya:
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: dbus-eudev and dbus are in conflict (dbus-core). Remove dbus? [y/N] y
Packages (3): dbus-1.8.2-1 [removal]  libdbus-1.8.4-1  dbus-eudev-1.8.4-1
Total Download Size:    0.52 MiB
Total Installed Size:  1.85 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:      0.10 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
After the above steps systemd would be uninstalled and replaced by eudev and its counterparts.
Note the optional dependencies for ''eudev'':
Optional dependencies for eudev
    eudev-openrc: eudev postmount script [pending]
    dbus-eudev: dbus without systemd
    upower-pm-utils-eudev: upower without systemd
    udisks2-eudev: udisks2 without systemd
    libpulse-eudev: libpulse without systemd
    cups-eudev: cups without systemd
    procps-ng-eudev: procps-ng without systemd
These can be installed to get required functionalities. I installed the upower-pm-utils-eudev, udisks2-eudev, and procps-ng-eudev packages.
After uninstalling systemd, I could not login to my xfce4-session, as it was complied for systemd. Hence I had to install [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xfce4-session-nosystemd/ xfce4-session-nosystemd] from the AUR to get it working.
I also had to downgrade ''xfce4-power-manager'' to version 1.2.0-5 to get it working.
Additionally, if not already done, [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ConsoleKit consolekit] can be installed to perform root actions like shutting down or restarting system as non-root user from your Desktop Environment.
Consolekit can be installed in the following way:
sudo pacman -S consolekit-openrc
The output looks like the following:
$ sudo pacman -S consolekit-openrc
[sudo] password for aaditya:
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: polkit-consolekit and polkit are in conflict. Remove polkit? [y/N] y
Packages (5): consolekit-0.4.6-4  js185-1.0.0-2  polkit-0.112-2 [removal]
              polkit-consolekit-0.112-2  consolekit-openrc-20140614-1
Total Download Size:    1.90 MiB
Total Installed Size:  10.67 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:      9.08 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
To check that consolekit is running and a ck-session was started, the following command can be used:
ck-list-sessions
The output looks like the following:
Session1:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = 'Aaditya Bagga'
seat = 'Seat1'
session-type = ''
active = TRUE
x11-display = ':0'
x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
display-device = ''
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = TRUE
on-since = '2014-06-15T13:29:58.652929Z'
login-session-id = ''


== Further Reading ==
== Further Reading ==


[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Openrc The Arch Wiki]
* [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Openrc The Arch Wiki]
 
* [http://blog.notfoss.com/posts/openrc-on-arch-linux/ OpenRC on Arch Linux]
[http://blog.notfoss.com/posts/openrc-on-arch-linux/ OpenRC on Arch Linux]
* [http://systemd-free.org/ systemd-free.org]
 
* [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Working/Initscripts Initscripts]
[http://abchk1234.wordpress.com/2014/06/03/using-openrc-on-arch-archbang-manjaro-linux/ Using OpenRC on Arch / Archbang / Manjaro Linux]
* [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/local.d /etc/local.d]
 
== Support ==
 
Following is a link to this page's forum counterpart where you can post any related feedback: [https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=14080.0]




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Manjaro does no longer support OpenRC


Replacement

Info
If you are looking for OpenRC capable Arch have a look at Artix Linux


What is OpenRC

OpenRC is a dependency based init system maintained by the Gentoo developers, that works with the system provided init program, normally sysvinit. It is not a replacement for sysvinit.

It is an alternative to systemd for users that like more control over their system, and do not want all the features that systemd provides and automatically activates.


Further Reading

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