not-systemd status in Bullseye?

Carsten Leonhardt leo at debian.org
Tue Mar 10 20:47:36 GMT 2020


Hi,

> I have a fresh bullseye system that has systemd on (because no option
> in the installer), which runs fvwm and lightdm, but I'm not sure how
> likely a move to sysvinit is to work - AFAICS, systemd prerm will
> refuse to run if systemd is init, making switching hard...

after making a backup, try booting with init=/bin/bash and switching
from there. If I remember right, that's how I've switched back and forth
in the past.

Regards,

Carsten




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