On 10/28/2011 03:47 PM, Sid Boyce wrote:

On 28/10/11 15:52, Larry Finger wrote:

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On 10/27/2011 03:53 PM, Vincent Untz wrote:

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To get something mentioned in the release notes, please file a bug against the release notes component in openSUSE 12.1. But you'll likely need to have the text first, so someone would need to answer your question (it might be that removing the systemd-sysvinit package is all you need)

I did a bit of testing. Trying to switch from systemv to systemd by removing systemd-sysvinit might work, but removing the systemd package to go the other way gets into a lot of dependency warnings.

The following commands work, but may not be optimal:

To select systemv as default, run the following (as root):

rm /sbin/init ln -s /sbin/sysvinit /sbin/init

To select systemd as default, run the following:

rm /sbin/init ln -s /bin/systemd /sbin/init

Should this kind of change be possible through a YaST GUI, or as a pair of scripts?

Larry

A YaST option would be slicker. On one box I did "zypper rm systemd" and it deleted a whole bunch of packages that seemed unrelated and I had to reinstall when I hit command not found, etc. I reinstalled systemd which only installed systemd. "ln -sf /sbin/sysvinit /sbin/init" is what I've now done on all boxes.

I tried the removal of systemd from YaST and quickly discovered all the deletes and package inconsistencies. From there, I aborted before causing any damage. As was added to bnc#727092 by Bjorn Lie, the correct way is to zypper in sysvinit-init / zypper in systemd-sysvinit depending on which init program you want as default. That process changes the link and likely does more. I expect that this method will be described in the Release Notes. Larry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

On 10/28/2011 03:47 PM, Sid Boyce wrote:

On 28/10/11 15:52, Larry Finger wrote:

...

On 10/27/2011 03:53 PM, Vincent Untz wrote:

...

To get something mentioned in the release notes, please file a bug against the release notes component in openSUSE 12.1. But you'll likely need to have the text first, so someone would need to answer your question (it might be that removing the systemd-sysvinit package is all you need)

I did a bit of testing. Trying to switch from systemv to systemd by removing systemd-sysvinit might work, but removing the systemd package to go the other way gets into a lot of dependency warnings.

The following commands work, but may not be optimal:

To select systemv as default, run the following (as root):

rm /sbin/init ln -s /sbin/sysvinit /sbin/init

To select systemd as default, run the following:

rm /sbin/init ln -s /bin/systemd /sbin/init

Should this kind of change be possible through a YaST GUI, or as a pair of scripts?

Larry

A YaST option would be slicker. On one box I did "zypper rm systemd" and it deleted a whole bunch of packages that seemed unrelated and I had to reinstall when I hit command not found, etc. I reinstalled systemd which only installed systemd. "ln -sf /sbin/sysvinit /sbin/init" is what I've now done on all boxes.

I tried the removal of systemd from YaST and quickly discovered all the deletes and package inconsistencies. From there, I aborted before causing any damage. As was added to bnc#727092 by Bjorn Lie, the correct way is to zypper in sysvinit-init / zypper in systemd-sysvinit depending on which init program you want as default. That process changes the link and likely does more. I expect that this method will be described in the Release Notes. Larry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org