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

[Michael Gold]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 18:31:25 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > Did you try "apt-get remove systemd"?  According to apt-history that was
> > the first command I ran after installing it.
> 
> You can't remove the systemd package while systemd is still the active init.
> How did you force the removal?

I just ran the apt-get commands shown in the apt-history.log, without
any flags to force it, and didn't run any dpkg commands (except the
eventual dpkg -i to recover).  I think what Sven reproduced is what
happened to me.  According to the logs, I started with sysvinit-core
2.88dsf-53 (not 53.2).

Note that the systemd removal didn't actually work until 9:22, when I
was running sysvinit again.  But one of the earlier commands left me
without an init.

-- Michael
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