Hi Helge, >On 09/06/2014 12:40 AM, Ulrich Teichert wrote: >> I just installed jessie/sid from debian-7.0-hppa-NETINST-1.iso (filestamp >> 28.8.2014) from hppa-ports on a 715/100XC with STI framebuffer. > >Nice old slow machine :-)
I even have a 715/33, which is real slow compared with the 715/100 ;-) >>Well, sort of. >> >> The install itself was slow, but went OK. After first forgetting that >> PALO can't read ext4... Anyway, everything went fine after I choose >> the automatic partitioning. > >Good. > >> Until I booted the fresh install. After the normal boot messages I got: >> >> systemd[1].... >> systemd[1]: Set hostname... >> systemd[1]: /etc/mtab is not a symlink... >> systemd[1]: Assertion 'sigaddset(ss, sig) == 0' failed at >> ../shared/util.c:2548, function sigset_add_many(). Aborting. >> systemd[1]: Caught <ABRT>, core dump failed >> systemd[1]: Freezing execution >> [abbreviated, extra line breaks inserted, STI framebuffer, sorry] >> >> Which was rather surprising for me, as I thought systemd was *not* mandatory. > >It's not mandatory. I'm not sure how it was selected for installation. >Did you modified the selection to be installed? I didn't, but there was another item selected, which I will deselect during the re-install, because: >> Can I get rid of systemd with an extra option during install or expert >> install or such? > >Without any selection systemd was not installed the last time I tried to CD... > >> I'm not a fan of systemd anyway and this experience did >> nothing to change it... > >You could try to fix your installed system with something like this: >- boot the kernel add add "init=/bin/bash" to the kernel line (at PALO prompt) >- after bootup run in Linux as root "mount -o remount,rw /" >- fire up network, e.g. "ifconfig eth0 up && dhclient eth0" >- run "apt-get install sysvinit-core" >- reboot Nice idea, but doesn't work, because the HP-IL keyboard connected to the box was not recognized at this point. I'll try a re-install to see what's going on and report tomorrow. If I still get systemd, I'll attach a serial console and try again, thanks for your quick help, CU, Uli -- Dipl. Inf. Ulrich Teichert|e-mail: [email protected] | Listening to: Stormweg 24 |Imperial State Electric, The Estranged, 24539 Neumuenster, Germany|The About Blanks, Cyanide Pills, Fu Manchu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

