Re: Read-only rootfs on systemd

[Amit <amit.uttam@gmail.com>]

Brian <ad44 <at> cityscape.co.uk> writes:

> 
> On Thu 06 Mar 2014 at 01:21:03 +0000, Amit wrote:
> 
> > I need cups, so is there a way around this?
> 
> This doesn't answer your question but I have a spare Wheezy with
> separate /, /home, and /var. I installed systemd, made the rootfs
> ro in fstab and booted with init=/lib/systemd/systemd. The rootfs
> was mounted ro. cupsd is also running.
> 
> 

Thanks for testing. I am running jessie at the moment. I kept a backup
of sysvinit as recommended by wiki.debian.org/systemd and used that. I
see the same issue of cups using /etc/passwd (deleted). So doesn't seem
to be a systemd issue, more of a cups issue I guess.