Bug#1104892: systemd-sysv : Conflicts: sysvinit-core but 3.06-4 is to be installed

[Matthew Vernon]

On 08/05/2025 09:40, Mark Hindley wrote:
> Jean-Marc,
> 
> On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 11:30:54PM +0200, Jean-Marc LACROIX wrote:
>> test 4: pstree
>> --------------
>>
>> root at hn-raspberry-pi2-310:~# pstree -anp
>> systemd,1
> 
> The other difficulty you will need to circumvent is that systemd cannot be
> removed whilst it is PID1[1]. So you will need to reboot with init=/bin/sh or
> similar first.

There is some documentation on this fiddly process on the wiki:

https://wiki.debian.org/Init#Changing_the_init_system_-_on_a_running_system

HTH,

Matthew