Package: sysvinit-core Version: 2.88dsf-53.3 Severity: critical Tags: d-i Justification: breaks the whole system
A dist-upgrade done last week replaced, without asking, sysvinit by systemd that I do not want to use. I checked which packages were available for reinstalling sysvinit and found sysvinit-core. I installed it (and sysvinit-utils) with apt-get and got an error because systemd was running. On reboot the system went on single user because /sbin/init was not available. I tried to run systemd and got an error message saying that the system was booted by sysvinit. I recovered from this situation by using a Live CD to copy the files in the package data.tar to the system disk. In my opinion there are two problems here: - the hidden installation of systemd and removal of sysvinit (I am aware this should be a bug report on systemd...) - the loose way the sysvinit-core is installed by not taking heed in an appropriate way of an error that breaks the system, leaving it with no process launcher. Best regards, Miguel Filgueiras -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages sysvinit-core depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.50 ii debianutils 4.3.4 ii initscripts 2.88dsf-41 ii libc6 2.17-3 ii libselinux1 2.1.13-2 ii libsepol1 2.1.9-2 ii sysv-rc 2.88dsf-41 ii sysvinit-utils 2.88dsf-41 sysvinit-core recommends no packages. sysvinit-core suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
