'Twas brillig, and Robert Fox at 30/10/11 12:27 did gyre and gimble: > On Sun, 2011-10-30 at 12:16 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote: >> 'Twas brillig, and Robert Fox at 30/10/11 11:52 did gyre and gimble: >>> Sorry Colin - wasn't trying to irk you. >> >> Yeah I know, sorry for being grumpy. I do appreciate we need to handle >> pam.d stuff better but I've tried raising this discussion a few times >> and no-ones really doing anything about it :( >> >> Guess I'll just have to pull my finger out and do it myself. >> >> Col >> > > No problem - I wanted to change back to systemd, but now I get a strange > conflict: > > [root@foxbase rfox]# urpmi systemd-sysvinit > > > installing systemd-sysvinit-37-7.mga2.x86_64.rpm > from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms > Preparing... > ######################################################################################### > Installation failed: file /sbin/halt from install of > systemd-sysvinit-37-7.mga2.x86_64 conflicts with file from package > sysvinit-2.87-10.mga1.x86_64 > file /sbin/init from install of systemd-sysvinit-37-7.mga2.x86_64 > conflicts with file from package sysvinit-2.87-10.mga1.x86_64 > file /sbin/poweroff from install of systemd-sysvinit-37-7.mga2.x86_64 > conflicts with file from package sysvinit-2.87-10.mga1.x86_64 > file /sbin/reboot from install of systemd-sysvinit-37-7.mga2.x86_64 > conflicts with file from package sysvinit-2.87-10.mga1.x86_64 > file /sbin/runlevel from install of systemd-sysvinit-37-7.mga2.x86_64 > conflicts with file from package sysvinit-2.87-10.mga1.x86_64 > file /sbin/shutdown from install of systemd-sysvinit-37-7.mga2.x86_64 > conflicts with file from package sysvinit-2.87-10.mga1.x86_64 > file /sbin/telinit from install of systemd-sysvinit-37-7.mga2.x86_64 > conflicts with file from package sysvinit-2.87-10.mga1.x86_64 > [root@foxbase rfox]# > > Do I have to use --force here??
Hmm, not sure, I guess it's not conflicting or obsoleting sysvinit or something. You can just pass init=/sbin/systemd to the kernel command line to boot with systemd tho' - you don't absolutely need the systemd-sysvinit package installed. Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/