Re: No system d after update wheezy -> jessie?

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Sun 27 Sep 2015 at 22:56:38 +0100, Joe wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 21:00:09 +0200
> Markus Grunwald <markus@the-grue.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > after the update from wheezy to jessie, there is no systemd running
> > on my machine. I had the impression, that systemd is installed
> > automatically...?
> > 
> > % dpkg -l \*systemd\* | egrep \^ii
> > ii  libsystemd0:amd64        215-17+deb8u2 amd64        systemd
> > utility library
> > 
> > % ps ax | grep system
> >  3441 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
> > 16669 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto system
> > 
> > % ps ax | head -n 2
> >   PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
> >     1 ?        Ss     0:02 init [2] 
> > 
> >  % dpkg -S /sbin/init
> > sysvinit-core: /sbin/init
> > 
> > I have to add that  the machine is a vserver where I have influence
> > on the kernel
> > 
> > % cat /proc/cmdline
> > root=/dev/xvda1
> > ip=95.129.55.223:127.0.255.255:95.129.55.193:255.255.255.192:vsrv28769.customer.xenway.de:eth0:off 
> > 
> 
> I believe there was a deliberate decision not to include systemd in an
> upgrade, only in new installations.

Actually, the decision was the opposite of this. A dist-upgrade will
install systemd-sysv unless steps are taken to prevent it happening.

  https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#systemd

  https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#systemd-upgrade-default-init-system