On 30/08/14 11:06, Tyler wrote: > Next I did some research on systemd, and found the following page which > explains how to determine which init is active on boot-up: > (http://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/29ydkj/jessie_am_i_running_systemd/). > > My system was running sysvinit. I found it a little odd that I had an > active logind session while running sysvinit. So after looking around > some more and not getting anywhere, I decided to try switching to > systemd for a single boot by adding "int=/bin/systemd" (symlink to > /lib/systemd/systemd) to the kernel line in the grub menu (pressing "e" > to edit the line). I was fairly surprised to find that this fixed all > three of the problems, and it didn't seem to break anything. I was able > to enable a connection with network-manager, and mount volumes in > Dolphin, and download lists and install packages in Apper. > Additionally, my default connection was enabled automatically on boot, > and that hadn't happened for several months (I had also used nmcli to > set it to autoconnect so that may have helped, but at least didn't fix > it on its own). I did find the following thread in which someone > recommends installing task-kde-desktop, so I installed that package: > (http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=116810). (Someone else > recommends not using Apper, especially not with testing, and I will > probably take that advice.) I then went ahead and installed > systemd-sysv to use systemd permanently. I then ran journalctl to view > the systemd journal so I could check for error messages, and there > wasn't anything of concern. > > It sounds like jessie is in the process of switching over to systemd > from sysvinit before it is released as stable, so my guess is that > something was changed in one or more packages which made them dependent > on systemd. At least in my case, the problem wasn't caused by a bug in > network-manager itself.** **
For reference I won't be switching over to systemd, so a normal SysV init here. Debian is committed to supporting alternative init systems, so having something only work under systemd is unacceptable.
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