On Mon November 10 2025 23:16:48 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
May I ask you how you managed to get SysV orking on Trixie? When I tried a debbootstrap installation it pulled in systemd and does isist on not beeing willing to let anything sysv be installed,
My notes on converting systemd to sysvinit in Debian Trixie are below.
Most of my systems were upgraded from Debian Bookworm, some of them repeatedly upgraded since Sarge, but some were new Trixie installs. The recipe gets harder with each Debian release. With Trixie I had to use the "apt install ... systemd-sysv-" to remove that package in the same apt transaction as installing three replacements.
Although I install orphan-sysvinit-scripts there are usually one or two that the systemd cult have removed that have not yet been collected into orphan-sysvinit-scripts so I have to retrieve them from Bookworm backups. I seem to recall "frr" this time - we use frr for routing over openvpn.
apt update apt upgrade apt install --allow-remove-essential sysvinit-core sysv-rc \ orphan-sysvinit-scripts systemd-sysv- reboot apt install libpam-elogind dpkg --purge systemd (may already be gone) reboot