[Mageia-dev] HEADSUP: New initscripts and systemd

Fri Nov 4 18:00:14 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 04/11/11 15:28 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 11/04/2011 07:01 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+>> New packages. I don't envisage any problems, but just figured I'd send a
+>> headsup anyway just in case.
+>>
+>> Please note that you'll need both packages for X to not stop about 3
+>> mins after your login and/or hang your boot. I didn't put in specific
+>> conflicts etc. as that would have meant a little more care from myself
+>> with the build system submits and it's a relatively soft requirement.
+>>
+> Well, that explains why I can't boot after updating this morning.  I get
+> tons of messages about "system cannot allocate temporary file", and it
+> eventually stalls (but responds to magic keys).
+
+Interesting....
+
+> I have initscripts and systemd installed, but when I try to install
+> systemd-sysvinit it wants to remove sysvinit.
+
+That's expected. But if you don't want to use *only* systemd, then you
+probably don't want to install that package. To choose which you use,
+just pass "init=/bin/systemd"  on the kernel command line (before
+nokmsboot if you have it) in order to boot with systemd.
+
+
+> Note that I haven't done anything about systemd one way or the other, so
+> what's installed is what an install around September/October installed,
+> plus --auto-select updates since then.
+> 
+> Any ideas ?
+
+Not yet... looking into it.
+
+Col
+
+
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