On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 3:28 PM, allan gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: > I run a stable system using gnome3 and hence systemd, specifically > systemd-236-r5. My bootloader is grub2. I do *not* have an EFI > platform and do *not* have an initramfs. > I do *not* have a separate /usr filesystem. > > The news item says that, in preparation for the 237 release and the > likely removal of the symlinks > /usr/lib/systemd/systemd and > /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-shutdown > we should update our boot config to reference init=/lib/systemd/system > > 1. Updating the boot config to reference init=/lib/systemd/system seems > to mean a 1-line change in /etc/default/grub > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" --> > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="init=/lib/systemd/systemd" > followed by the usual > grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > Is that it?
Yes. > 2. What should I be doing to prepare for the removal of the > /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-shutdown symlink? You don't need to do anything specific here. > 3. "After upgrading, please run systemctl daemon-reexec". Which > upgrade is being referred to? Is it the upgrade to the 237 release, > with the likely removal of the two symlinks. You should run that command after any systemd upgrade, but specifically after upgrading from a version prior to 234.
