On Wed, Feb 07 2018, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 3:28 PM, allan gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: >> I run a stable system using gnome3 and hence systemd, specifically >> systemd-236-r5. My bootloader is grub2. I do *not* have an EFI >> platform and do *not* have an initramfs. >> I do *not* have a separate /usr filesystem. >> >> The news item says that, in preparation for the 237 release and the >> likely removal of the symlinks >> /usr/lib/systemd/systemd and >> /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-shutdown >> we should update our boot config to reference init=/lib/systemd/system >> >> 1. Updating the boot config to reference init=/lib/systemd/system seems >> to mean a 1-line change in /etc/default/grub >> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" --> >> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="init=/lib/systemd/systemd" >> followed by the usual >> grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg >> Is that it? > > Yes. > >> 2. What should I be doing to prepare for the removal of the >> /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-shutdown symlink? > > You don't need to do anything specific here. > >> 3. "After upgrading, please run systemctl daemon-reexec". Which >> upgrade is being referred to? Is it the upgrade to the 237 release, >> with the likely removal of the two symlinks. > > You should run that command after any systemd upgrade, but > specifically after upgrading from a version prior to 234.
Thank you. allan gottlieb
