Reply To: [solved] Runit Service Manager won’t let slimski be disabled

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September 28, 2025 at 11:59 am #186240
anti-apXos
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    andfree wrote:

    The warning seems to be crucial in the case of a frugal (static) installation. In such a case, if slimski has been disabled, neither X/GUI nor console/tty with active cursor appears.

    Unless you’ve also disabled the getty-tty services, you should be able to press Alt+Right to go to tty2 and login.

    On runit, services are enabled if there’s a symlink in /etc/service pointing to the actual service directory in /etc/sv, so without modifying the runit service manager script, you can always remove a service with e.g.

    sudo rm /etc/service/slimski

    and re-add it with

    sudo ln -s /etc/sv/slimski /etc/service

    At least on runit, the ‘update-rc.d remove’ command actually only stops a service, without removing it. So it’s analogous to the runit command ‘sv down slimski’

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