On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 3:17 PM The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
<snip> > >> If you want to keep sysvinit, here's the order of events: > >> > >> change sources from stretch to buster > > > > Fine. > > > >> apt update > > > > Splendid. > > > >> apt dist-upgrade > > > > Great. > > > >> apt install sysvinit-core > > > > What happens if this is not done? > > Next time you reboot, you'll have systemd as init. > The Confusion behind this, is one reason why I am friendly to Devuan ( https://devuan.org/), while still running some systems as Debian (with SystemD). To the Original Poster, I would only suggest to examine the Devuan Website, to see if it's an option. (Note, however, that they are, as far as I know, behind Debian by one Release, with their "Ascii" Release matching Debian Stretch). The dist-upgrade will have resulted in installing the systemd-sysv > package, which (despite its name) has nothing to do with sysvinit; it is > the package which sets systemd as the primary / active / default init > system. > > Installing sysvinit-core will uninstall that package. > Good luck! Kenneth Parker
