Package: upgrade-reports Severity: normal I upgraded wheezy->jessie with "apt-get -s dist-upgrade". The apt-get failed and I needed several rounds of this to complete the upgrade:
# dpkg --configure -a # apt-get install -f # apt-get autoremove But that's just background info. This upgrade also installed systemd. After checking with ... # apt-get update # apt-get dist-upgrade ... to make sure there were no unfinished things, I rebooted. The system came up, but systemd came up in emergency mode. This wasn't a welcome development. I had been avoiding getting embroiled in the public arguments about the merits of systemd and was basically neutral about it. I got the feeling though that my neutrality was about to change. I authenticated as root (with some difficulty; systemd appeared still to be checking local filesystems in parallel, and these processes were writing to the console) and tried out the diagnostic commands systemd suggested (for examining its journal). The result was quite unexpected. The journal contained a summary of systemd's attempts to start various subsystems. Most of the problems in the log related to hald. A minute's web research showed that since this is now obsolete, the fix is to uninstall it. I uninstalled it and rebooted. The second time, I was returned to emergency mode; two services had failed: console-kit-log-system-start.service ebtables.service The ebtables package was uninstalled (in state "rc" according to dpkg -l). I don't remember when I uninstalled it. Perhaps it was uninstalled by one of the invocations of "apt-get autoremove" above. Purging the ebtables package fixed one of the two problems. Unsettlingly though this made the other (apparently entirely unrelated) service flip from broken to working, so all was suddenly well. For a first experience with systemd, I think this went reasonably well, for me. But for a non-power-user to update from SYSV-style init to systemd seems a stretch, at least if my experience is typical. Anyway, once I'd booted again and logged in, everything seems to be working. According to etckeeper, the version of ebtables I purged was 2.0.9.2-2. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
