[Assist] Snapper and OpenRC

[Omar Polo]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply!

I forgot to mention that I've alredy checked the gentoo wiki :)

I tried to build an init script
[snapper-openrc](https://github.com/omar-polo/snapper-openrc) but the
problem is that snapperd quit itself after some inactivity. AFAIK
snapperd is expected to be launched by dbus, and that for some reason
does not happen to me.

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I was about to sending this email, when I noticed that snapper (the cli
tool, not the deamon) has an option to run without dbus (`--no-dbus`),
I'm using that for now

On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 07:23:45PM -0400, Megver83 wrote:
> Haven't you looked for a Snapper OpenRC init script?
> I've not seen in Gentoo's wiki that Snapper has no init script -->
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Snapper however, the same happened with
> udisks2 so storage devices where not detected by GUI file managers, so I
> created my own udisks2-openrc package and uploaded it to [pcr] and AUR,
> maybe the same could happen with snapper.
> 
> El 04/06/17 a las 17:02, Omar Polo escribió:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > two days ago I reinstalled parabola on my laptop and I've decided to use
> > openrc as init system.
> > 
> > So far everything went well, but now I've noticed that snapper does not
> > work as expected.
> > 
> > Snapper is a tool to create and manage snapshots of BTRFS and LVM
> > partitions.
> > 
> > The problem is that when I run any command that involves `snapper(8)` I
> > get
> > ```
> > Operation not succeeded (org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed).
> > ```
> > 
> > BUT, if I start `snapperd` in some terminal, `snapper` suddenly start
> > working. Unfortunately `snapperd` stops itself after a short period of
> > time.
> > 
> > Digging in the source code of snapper, I've understood that `snapperd`
> > relies on dbus for its activation. [^1]
> > 
> > Given this, how can I solve this problem? Manually running `snapperd`
> > could temporary fix this problem, but isn't something I'd like to do on
> > a daily basis.
> > 
> > I've tried to write an init.d script that starts `snapperd`, but
> > `snapperd` quit itself after inactivity.
> > 
> > Obviously all mentioned command were executed as root
> > 
> > * * *
> > 
> > [^1]: The snapper' systemd unit file is:
> > ```
> > # DBus service activation config
> > [D-BUS Service]
> > Name=org.opensuse.Snapper
> > Exec=/usr/sbin/snapperd
> > User=root
> > ```
> > 
> > 
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