failed to start

[Ygarr]

finti from linux packages itself: Release: 24.04
Codename: noble

after adding : init=/usr/sbin/finit or /sbin/finit
got;
"Kernel Panic Attempted to kill init exitcode=0x0000000b"
config:
File: /etc/finit.conf
───────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
1 │ # Ubuntu 24.04 + Finit
2 │
3 │ # After bootstrap go to normal runlevel
4 │ runlevel 2
5 │
6 │ # Basic virtual filesystems
7 │ run /bin/mount -t proc proc /proc
8 │ run /bin/mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys
9 │ run /bin/mount -t devtmpfs devtmpfs /dev
10 │ run /bin/mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts
11 │
12 │ # Basic system setup
13 │ run /sbin/swapon -a
14 │
15 │ # Kernel modules
16 │ task /sbin/modprobe -a -q
17 │
18 │ # udev
19 │ service udev /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd --daemon
20 │
21 │ # System logging
22 │ sysv [2345] /etc/init.d/rsyslog
23 │
24 │ # cron
25 │ sysv [2345] /etc/init.d/cron
26 │
27 │ # dbus
28 │ sysv [2345] /etc/init.d/dbus
29 │
30 │ # TTY login
31 │ tty [2345] /sbin/agetty -o '-p -- \u' --noclear 38400 tty1 linux

[troglobit]

Ubuntu 24.04 carries Finit v4.7, which is quite old and nothing this project has the capacity to support. I don't see any mention of what steps you took when installing it, which is an important detail since Finit is not a drop-in replacement for the default PID 1 (systemd).

I suggest you have a look at the closest guide (Debian) that was contributed quite a while back: https://github.com/finit-project/finit/tree/4.7/contrib/debian -- notice the link to 4.7 since the master version is now 5.0-rc1 which has a new file format amongst other things.

[Ygarr]

This,after install

recent cloned version (5.0.1-rc) on same OS. With builded from scratch fresh libs: libuev, libite. Pity

[troglobit]

Thanks for the screenshot. What it shows is a system that has booted all the way to runlevel 2 on Finit 5.0-rc1, it just has no login prompt because your one tty line failed to register. So this is not a crash, it is a configuration problem. Note also the boot heading says Winux 11.25.03, so this is not stock Ubuntu 24.04. Please say so up front when reporting.

Taking the messages one at a time:

Mounting filesystems from /usr/etc/fstab -- Finit only prints the path when it is not /etc/fstab. So you ran ./configure --prefix=/usr without --sysconfdir=/etc, and Finit was built to look for /usr/etc/finit.conf, /usr/etc/finit.d/, and /usr/etc/fstab. The Debian contrib script handles all of this, please use it:

contrib/debian/build.sh

followed by sudo contrib/debian/install.sh. It installs /etc/finit.conf and a set of ready-made services under /etc/finit.d/available/, all in the current block format. Enable the ones you want at runtime with initctl enable NAME.

tty_parse_args(): Incomplete or non-existing TTY device given -- your line is

tty [2345] /sbin/agetty -o '-p -- \\u' --noclear 38400 tty1 linux

In the old one-liner format -- separates the command from its description, so Finit cuts the line at the -- inside your -o argument and never sees tty1. Drop -o '-p -- \u', it is only needed for autologin, or better, use the built-in getty like contrib/debian/finit.d/available/getty.conf does:

tty tty1 {
    runlevel = "2345"
    device   = "/dev/tty1"
    term     = "linux"
    noclear  = true
    nowait   = true
}

Service cron[573] died (exit status: 0), restarting -- Debian's cron forks into the background and writes /run/crond.pid. Finit sees the process it started exit and, not knowing about that pidfile, concludes cron died. Run it in the foreground instead, which is what the contrib cron.conf does:

service cron {
    runlevel   = "2345"
    conditions = { "sys/pwr/ac", "pid/syslogd" }
    envfile    = "-/etc/default/cron"
    command    = "cron -f $EXTRA_OPTS"
}

Note the conditions: it waits for a syslog daemon (enable rsyslogd.conf) and for AC power. On a laptop on battery, drop sys/pwr/ac.

tmpfiles: Unsupported tmpfiles command 'Q' -- Ubuntu's /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/home.conf uses the btrfs subvolume types q/Q, which Finit's tmpfiles does not know yet. Harmless for booting.

Failed to claim org.finit on system bus: AccessDenied -- the D-Bus policy file org.finit.conf is not where dbus-daemon looks for it. make install puts it in /usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/ with --prefix=/usr. If you copied the finit binary by hand instead of running make install, that explains this one. Not fatal, initctl works without it.

If it still does not work after using the contrib scripts, please post, preferably as text, not photos:

• the summary block printed at the end of ./configure
• /etc/finit.conf and ls -l /etc/finit.d/ /etc/finit.d/available/
• cat /proc/cmdline
• initctl and initctl cond dump after boot