On Thu 23 Oct 2014 at 04:29:59 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > Well I also seem to have systemd-shim installed. > So I am confused... How all this adds up... In its maintainer's words: systemd-shim expresses no preference for init system, and is completely coinstallable with systemd-sysv - and should be a no-op when booting under systemd because the dbus name is already taken. It's not needed with systemd as init; I'd purge it .