Bug#751589: sysvinit-core: /sbin/init missing after switching from systemd to sysvinit

[Michael Biebl]

Am 14.06.2014 16:55, schrieb Sven Joachim:
> Control: reassign -1 systemd-sysv 204-6
> 
> On 2014-06-14 16:18 +0200, Michael Gold wrote:
> 
>> Package: sysvinit-core
>> Version: 2.88dsf-53.2
>> Severity: critical
>>
>> After a failed switch to systemd today (Debian bug #751585), I tried to
>> switch back to sysvinit but found /sbin/init missing after a reboot,
>> which of course prevented the system from booting.
>>
>> /sbin was available in the emergency shell and contained some files, but
>> 'init' wasn't there.  'dpkg -L sysvinit-core' ended at the line '/sbin'
>> (i.e., it was missing /sbin/shutdown, /sbin/init, etc.).  I eventually
>> figured out to run 'dpkg -i' on that .deb; this restored /sbin/init, and
>> then I was able to boot the system normally.
>>
>> I've attached dpkg and apt logfiles, starting with the systemd
>> installation.
> 
> Those show that sysvinit-core was unpacked with systemd-sysv still in
> place which is bad because systemd-sysv Replaces sysvinit-core.  The
> systemd-sysv package should declare a Conflicts rather than Breaks on
> sysvinit-core to prevent this from happening.
> 

This is not going to happen as this conflicts with #748355.
We are actually going to drop the Breaks.




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