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Package: systemd
Version: 215-17+deb8u
I've tried to remove systemd package, as all normal users of Linux.
But it won't clean after itself properly:
# apt-get remove --purge --auto-remove systemd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
systemd*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
After this operation, 12.2 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 60858 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing systemd (215-17+deb8u5) ...
systemd is the active init system, please switch to another before removing
systemd.
dpkg: error processing package systemd (--purge):
subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Failed to stop lib-init-rw.mount: Unit lib-init-rw.mount not loaded.
addgroup: The group `systemd-journal' already exists as a system group.
Exiting.
Errors were encountered while processing:
systemd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
For some reason this poor thing tries to add group systemd-journal when
being removed.
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--- Begin Message ---
Hi Vitaliyi,
On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 08:33:40AM +0200, Vitaliyi wrote:
[...]
> Removing systemd (215-17+deb8u5) ...
> systemd is the active init system, please switch to another before removing
> systemd.
> dpkg: error processing package systemd (--purge):
> subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
[...]
> For some reason this poor thing tries to add group systemd-journal when
> being removed.
The adduser warning you're seeing isn't causing your issue.
I've stripped the output to help you spot what you're hitting.
This is a safety check to help you not shoot your own feet off.
(You might want to 'apt install sysvinit-core' and then reboot
before attempting what you're doing....)
Regards,
Andreas Henriksson
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