On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 04:57:49PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Sun, 2018-10-14 at 10:23 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Throughout Jessie and Stretch, I have been running Debian without > > systemd as the init system. If systemd became installed by accident, > > I > > promptly removed it in favor of sysvinit. > > > > I have done so on six desktops, two laptops, and a large number (I > > will > > not specify, but in the hundreds) of servers. > > > > I have encountered no problems that can be attributed to my choice of > > init system. > > I take it you don't have encrypted disks then, because with them > Stretch will hang on shutdown if you aren't using systemd as the init > process [...] This is fixable. I've encrypted disks (unencrypted boot plus one LUKS partition containing an LVM whithin which the other partitions live). All under sysvinit. If there's interest, I can recap what I had to do to fix it (it seemed obvious to me at the time, but memory is treacherous). Cheers -- t
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