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 apt update apt dist-upgrade apt install sysvinit-core on a desktop system, apt install elogind reboot check that /sbin/init is a 42KB-ish binary, not a link off to systemd land. Test things carefully. I've got this working on a few test servers and one test "desktop" VM. I haven't tested KDE yet, just XFCE4, but I can probably try KDE this week. > The KDE systems have systemd-shim installed, which is not present in Buster. > Is this going to cause problems? Will the server be okay? Should I just stay > with Stretch until Bullseye is released or consider moving to Devuan after > more than 20 years with Debian? It's plausible that if KDE doesn't currently work, buster-backports will eventually allow it to work -- if so, it will be due to the Debian Init Diversity team. -dsr-
