On 2019-09-16 at 15:07, Brian wrote: > On Sun 15 Sep 2019 at 21:52:50 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > >> Roger Lynn wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have three Stretch AMD64 systems with sysvinit - a desktop and >>> laptop running KDE and a headless server. Is there any >>> information available anywhere to tell me what will happen when I >>> attempt to upgrade them to Buster? The release notes don't >>> mention it and other sources I can find just talk about switching >>> from systemd to sysvinit, which doesn't look easy with a desktop >>> environment. >> >> If you want to keep sysvinit, here's the order of events: >> >> change sources from stretch to buster > > Fine. > >> apt update > > Splendid. > >> apt dist-upgrade > > Great. > >> apt install sysvinit-core > > What happens if this is not done?
Next time you reboot, you'll have systemd as init. The dist-upgrade will have resulted in installing the systemd-sysv package, which (despite its name) has nothing to do with sysvinit; it is the package which sets systemd as the primary / active / default init system. Installing sysvinit-core will uninstall that package. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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