On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 19:26:48 -0500, Haines wrote in message <20160131002648.gg8...@engels.historicalmaterialism.info>:
> I have been running Debian Sid on a laptop with a purged systemd for > quite a few months. Maybe when I now ran # aptitude update or > safe-upgrade for the first time after several months since the Sid > installation systemd-udevd seems to have switched my wireless > interface from wlan0 to wlp3s0. > > Changing the entry in /etc/network/interfaces fixed that problem. So > now I could do a wireless aptitude update and safe-upgrade. > > Even though in /etc/apt/preferences.d/systemd I have: > > Package: "systemd" > Pin: origin "" > Pin-Priority: -1 > > Systemd was re-installed. Why didn't this systemd file prevent it? > > Then I found that while root can run starx with no problem, when user > does it the desktop comes up frozen along with mouse and keyboard > input. I found this: > > $ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE > (EE) systemd-logind: failed to gete session: The name \ > org.freedesktop.login1 was not provided by any .service \ > files. > > Systemd is not on the system, so where did systemd-logind come from? > How can I block it and recover a usable virtual desktop for user? ..we used to have a "--what-provides" search flag somewhere, man -k, man dpkg-query, man apt-file, man apt-cache etc did not turn up anything ringing any bells for me, so I tried: https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=systemd-logind&mode=filename&suite=unstable&arch=any ? ..I like this a lot better: http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=debian ..can we trust these anymore? https://packages.debian.org , http://packages.ubuntu.com/ and https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-pkg_basics.en.html ..other ideas: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/198009/what-provides-etc-exports-and-how-do-i-find-that-out https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Debian+%22what-provides%22 https://duckduckgo.com/?q=linux+%22what-provides%22 -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng