Bug#757207: systemd: Installation of systemd makes system unbootable

[Jens Stavnstrup]

Package: systemd
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

The bug is properly related to #754059, but unlike Filippo, I was stupid enough to update to systemd, which resulted in the removal of sysvinit-core and resulted in an unbotable system.

Using emergency mode (which is also a problem due to #755581), I was able to re-add sysvinit-core, which subsequently removed

network-manager:i386 (0.9.10.0-1), kde-plasma-desktop:i386
(84), hplip:i386 (3.14.6-1), plasma-nm:i386 (0.9.3.3-4),
printer-driver-postscript-hp:i386 (3.14.6-1), systemd-sysv:i386
(208-6), kde-standard:i386 (84), polkit-kde-1:i386 (0.99.1-1),
packagekit:i386 (0.8.17-4), appstream-index:i386 (0.7.0-2),
task-kde-desktop:i386 (3.20), policykit-1-gnome:i386 (0.105-2),
listaller:i386 (0.5.8-2), plasma-widget-networkmanagement:i386
(0.9.3.3-4), gvfs:i386 (1.20.2-1), colord:i386 (1.2.1-1),
libpam-systemd:i386 (208-6), udisks2:i386 (2.1.3-2),
packagekit-tools:i386 (0.8.17-4), gvfs-daemons:i386 (1.20.2-1),
policykit-1:i386 (0.105-6.1), apper:i386 (0.8.2-3)

Have looked at the different bug reports, but have not found anyway to restablish my system.

What systemd packages should be added, it order for my system to work properly again? And do I need to modify anything else? Looked at the systemd wiki entry, but that seems a bit outdated with respect to the discussion taking place on the debian-devel mailing-list.

Adding systemd, systemd-shim and cgmanager did not help. 

Trying to add several of the packages in the above list .e.f. network-manager requires systemd and will remove sysvinit-core and make my system unbootable again. 


Since I am using a LVM2 encripted disk, this report may also be related to #678438 and/or #692120.


Relevant version numbers for the systemd packages are

systemd 208-6
systemd-shim 6-4
cgmanager 0.28.3



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  acl                  2.2.52-1
ii  adduser              3.113+nmu3
ii  initscripts          2.88dsf-53.2
ii  libacl1              2.2.52-1
ii  libaudit1            1:2.3.7-1
ii  libblkid1            2.20.1-5.8
ii  libc6                2.19-7
ii  libcap2              1:2.24-3
ii  libcap2-bin          1:2.24-3
ii  libcryptsetup4       2:1.6.4-4
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.8.6-1
ii  libgcrypt11          1.5.3-5
ii  libkmod2             18-1
ii  liblzma5             5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
ii  libpam0g             1.1.8-3
ii  libselinux1          2.3-1
ii  libsystemd-daemon0   208-6
ii  libsystemd-journal0  208-6
ii  libsystemd-login0    208-6
ii  libudev1             208-6
ii  libwrap0             7.6.q-25
ii  sysv-rc              2.88dsf-53.2
ii  udev                 208-6
ii  util-linux           2.20.1-5.8

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
pn  libpam-systemd  <none>

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
pn  systemd-ui  <none>