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Posted: **Wed Jun 11, 2025 5:37 am**

Short:
Most important question I have, is this guide bellow still current, if I want to Chroot into my system via live USB stick, since it is from 2016.

https://mxlinux.org/wiki/system/chroot/

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Long:
I saw services manager and I got a wonderful idea, to tidy up my system

I disabled these services:
- glances (it is top like terminal app I installed at some point, don't need service to constantly run, disabling it, couldn't hurt)
- cups (don't have printer, this was probably a mistake)
- cups-browsed (also don't use network printer either)

After this system, wouldn't boot into SysVinit. Naturally, boots into systemd

So I tried Chroot commands - adjusted to my: /dev/sda3 - from upper link. Had no errors. After I entered all the commands from upper guide and I was chrooted(?!?), I ran (terminal was already sudo)
service --status-all
and
update-rc.d glances enable (found these commands in some older forum post)

Only problem I had was, I masked cups service some long time ago. I can't recall the command and how to unmask it.
Because cups service is masked, I couldn't enable it. I did enable glances and cups-browsed. Of course I was keep using chrooted terminal for al these commands.

I tried also
update-rc.d cups unmask
update-rc.d cups defaults

What is really strange is, if I later ran: service --status-all , there was still - (minus) in front of glances. Like I didn't enable it.
So I'm curious, what I'm doing wrong and how to properly: chroot, unmask and enable services.

It is a non priority post, more for learning purpose. I can log into systemd and use computer normally.
My guess is, after I executed commands from upper guide, I was probably still not properly chrooted...

My systemd inxi:

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Snapshot created on: 20250322_1857
System:
  Kernel: 6.9.4-1-liquorix-amd64 [6.9-3~mx23ahs] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0 clocksource: tsc
    avail: hpet,acpi_pm parameters: audit=0 intel_pstate=disable
    BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.9.4-1-liquorix-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
    init=/lib/systemd/systemd
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.20.0 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.38 wm: xfwm4 v: 4.20.0 with: xfce4-panel
    tools: xfce4-screensaver vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: MX-23.6_x64 Libretto May 19 2024
    base: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: N76VZ v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: N76VZ v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required> part-nu: ASUS-NotebookSKU
    uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: N76VZ.214 date: 07/09/2013
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse B330/M330/M331 serial: <filter>
    charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i7-3610QM bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Ivy Bridge gen: core 3 level: v2
    built: 2012-15 process: Intel 22nm family: 6 model-id: 0x3A (58) stepping: 9 microcode: 0x21
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache: L1: 256 KiB
    desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB L3: 6 MiB desc: 1x6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1362 high: 1600 min/max: 1200/2301 boost: enabled scaling:
    driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: ondemand cores: 1: 1400 2: 1501 3: 1451 4: 1351 5: 1200 6: 1600
    7: 1200 8: 1200 bogomips: 36715
  Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; IBRS_FW; STIBP: conditional; RSB
    filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Vulnerable: No microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics vendor: ASUSTeK N56VZ driver: i915 v: kernel
    arch: Gen-7 process: Intel 22nm built: 2012-13 ports: active: LVDS-1 empty: VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
    chip-ID: 8086:0166 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK107M [GeForce GT 650M] vendor: ASUSTeK N56VZ driver: N/A alternate: nouveau
    non-free: series: 470.xx+ status: legacy-active (EOL~2024-09-xx) arch: Kepler code: GKxxx
    process: TSMC 28nm built: 2012-2018 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:0fd1 class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: Sunplus Innovation Asus Webcam driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
    lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-1.3:4 chip-ID: 1bcf:2883 class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.20.0 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: crocus gpu: i915 display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 509x286mm (20.04x11.26") s-diag: 584mm (22.99")
  Monitor-1: LVDS-1 model: Chi Mei Opto 0x1720 built: 2011 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 128
    gamma: 1.2 size: 382x215mm (15.04x8.46") diag: 438mm (17.3") ratio: 16:9 modes: 1920x1080
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel crocus platforms: device: 0 drv: crocus device: 1 drv: swrast
    gbm: drv: crocus surfaceless: drv: crocus x11: drv: crocus inactive: wayland
  API: OpenGL v: 4.2 vendor: intel mesa v: 22.3.6 glx-v: 1.4 es-v: 3.0 direct-render: yes
    renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2) device-ID: 8086:0166 memory: 1.46 GiB
    unified: yes
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.239 layers: 3 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu name: Intel HD Graphics 4000
    (IVB GT2) driver: mesa intel v: 22.3.6 device-ID: 8086:0166 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 1
    type: cpu name: llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.6 256 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe v: 22.3.6 (LLVM 15.0.6)
    device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: xcb,xlib
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK 7
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1e20 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GK107 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s
    lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0e1b class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.9.4-1-liquorix-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.6 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel modules: wl pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:0887 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK N56VZ driver: alx v: kernel
    pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 1969:1091
    class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Info: services: NetworkManager, nfsd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Centrino Bluetooth Wireless Transceiver driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-1.1:3 chip-ID: 8087:07da class-ID: e001
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: N/A rfk-block: hardware: no
    software: no address: <filter>
  Info: acl-mtu: 310:10 sco-mtu: 64:8 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff park
    link-mode: peripheral accept
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.13 TiB used: 75.87 GiB (6.6%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: PNY model: CS1311 240GB SSD size: 223.57 GiB block-size:
    physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1122
    scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Crucial model: CT1000MX500SSD1 size: 931.51 GiB
    block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD serial: <filter>
    fw-rev: 045 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 39.2 GiB size: 38.29 GiB (97.67%) used: 22 GiB (57.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
    maj-min: 8:3
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 2.24 GiB size: 2.23 GiB (99.80%) used: 376.6 MiB (16.5%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: yes compressor: lz4
    max-pool: 20%
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 2.18 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda6
    maj-min: 8:6
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 63.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 2700
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2587 libs: 1355 tools: apt, apt-get, aptitude, nala, synaptic pm: rpm
    pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
    1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb https://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera-stable.list
    1: deb https://deb.opera.com/opera-stable/ stable non-free
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscodium.list
    1: deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/vscodium-archive-keyring.gpg] https://paulcarroty.gitlab.io/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/debs vscodium main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/extrepo_librewolf.sources
    1: deb [arch=amd64 arm64] https://repo.librewolf.net librewolf main
Info:
  Memory: total: N/A available: 15.51 GiB used: 2.17 GiB (14.0%)
  Processes: 328 Power: uptime: 21m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep avail: s2idle
    wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot, suspend, test_resume image: 6.17 GiB
    services: upowerd,xfce4-power-manager Init: systemd v: 252 target: graphical (5)
    default: graphical tool: systemctl
  Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.35
Boot Mode: UEFI

Posted: **Wed Jun 11, 2025 7:38 am**

usually masking is a systemd concept.

for sysVinit, to reset to defaults in the init scripts, you can do

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sudo update-rc.d $SERVICE remove
sudo update-rc.d $SERVICE defaults

if any symlinks were manually removed, that should restore them.

Posted: **Wed Jun 11, 2025 8:35 am**

dolphin_oracle wrote: Wed Jun 11, 2025 7:38 am
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sudo update-rc.d $SERVICE remove
sudo update-rc.d $SERVICE defaults

Ahh, makes sense, remove and add, thank you!
That Chroot guide is still good to follow, correct?

Posted: **Wed Jun 11, 2025 8:42 am**

Buck Fankers wrote: Wed Jun 11, 2025 8:35 am
dolphin_oracle wrote: Wed Jun 11, 2025 7:38 am
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sudo update-rc.d $SERVICE remove
sudo update-rc.d $SERVICE defaults
Ahh, makes sense, remove and add, thank you!
That Chroot guide is still good to follow, correct?

nothing wrong with it. chroot-rescue-scan is a handy option as well.

Posted: **Wed Jun 11, 2025 9:09 am**

dolphin_oracle wrote: Wed Jun 11, 2025 8:42 am nothing wrong with it. chroot-rescue-scan is a handy option as well.

Will give it a try. And thanks again for all the information!

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