On Tue 17 Sep 2019 at 10:37:15 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 15 Sep 2019 at 23:31:23 +0100, Roger Lynn wrote: > > > 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. > > The Release Notes don't mention it because there is nothing to say. > > I changed sources.list on a sysvinit system to point to buster. Did 'apt > update' followed by 'apt full-upgrade'. systemd-sysv was not in the list > of packages to be installed. I installed and rebooted. 'cat /proc/1/comm > still shows "init". > > You can upgrade with confidence that the init system will remain as it > is.
I withdraw the advice in the final sentence. It is misleading, especially as systemd-shim has apparently become unusable. Having libpam-systemd on any of the stretch systems is probably a deciding factor as to what will happen. -- Brian.
