15 Jul
2018
15 Jul
'18
2:38 p.m.
On Sunday 15 July 2018 01:34:01 Nick Koretsky wrote:
On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 19:50:38 -0700
William Morder <doctor_contendo(a)zoho.com> wrote:
Thanks, I believe that answers my question. I've already seen Devuan
running more or less like this, and it seemed to do okay. I am not
"against" systemd for ideological reasons; I only want my system to run
smoothly and efficiently, not to hang up, that kind of thing; and
something like this would seem to be my solution, at least temporarily.
As for getting off-topic, I will drop it for now, as I have got my own
answer, and leave others to work out these other issues that don't
concern me.
BTW, a trick to prevent systemd accidentally getting reinstalled as pid 1
on updates - create a file in /etc/apt/preferences.d with following
content:
Package: systemd-sysv
Pin: release o=Debian
Pin-Priority: -1
Thanks to those recent tips from deloptes and Nick Koretsky, my system is now
purring like a kitten.
And I did find a file called avoid-systemd in that folder, so I copied it for
backup.
Bill
On the whole, Devuan runs much faster than Debian, and
also my system
doesn't hang. I started having these and other problems, and returned
for the moment to Debian Jessie, which runs okay, but hangs a lot,
and when I try to reboot seems to get permanently stuck on some stuff
called rpcbind and watchdog. (Also I note that systemd is always
doing something, don't know what.)
I am contemplating some kind of FrankenDebian hack (or rather,
FrankenDevuan). I seem to recall that somebody mentioned that
sysvinit could be installed, and systemd purged, on a Debian system.
The do upgrades from the Debian repositories, but keep sysvinit and
avoid the systemd problems.
This depend on what level you want to purge systemd. If it is not for
ideological reasons and you are ok with having all sysytemd libraries
in system, just want sysvinit as pid 1, then you just need to install
sysvinit-core and uninstall systemd-sysv.