Which init system for Debian?

Posted Nov 6, 2013 7:06 UTC (Wed) by ncm (guest, #165)
Parent article: Which init system for Debian?

How mature is the Debian systemd package? Can I try it out without taking foolish risks? Supposing Debian were to decide for OpenRC, would there be any difficulty for users running OpenRC, Upstart, or SysVinit instead? I.e., is this just about project defaults, or does it profoundly change packaging policy?

Which init system for Debian?

Posted Nov 6, 2013 7:08 UTC (Wed) by ncm (guest, #165) [Link]

That's "... running Systemd,...".

Which init system for Debian?

Posted Nov 6, 2013 7:30 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

It's OK.

I'm using systemd on my Debian on RaspberryPi to speed up the boot (it really needs it...). I think I had to tweak cgroups kernel options in GRUB, but that's it. Everything else works fine.

Which init system for Debian?

Posted Nov 6, 2013 12:47 UTC (Wed) by KSteffensen (guest, #68295) [Link]

Works pretty much out of the box on my Dell XPS13. There was a conflict with the sysvinit package but I haven't seen it complaining on my last few runs of apt-get dist-upgrade so it may have been resolved now.

More info here:
https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Issue_.231:_sysvinit_vs._...

Which init system for Debian?

Posted Nov 6, 2013 19:43 UTC (Wed) by rbrito (guest, #66188) [Link] (2 responses)

If your system has a moderately current sid installation (I am not sure if testing has it), then the bulk (all?) of systemd is already installed and trying to use systemd for one boot is as simple as passing

init=/bin/systemd

on the kernel command line (i.e., as an option in your bootloader).

One thing: yes, that's /bin, BTW, not /sbin.

I am, by the way, with my computer booted right now with systemd and, so far, I have not seen any differences regarding the regular sysv init system, apart from a bunch of pseudo-filesystems mounted under /sys/fs/cgroup (and probably some others).

Which init system for Debian?

Posted Nov 21, 2013 13:59 UTC (Thu) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359) [Link] (1 responses)

Well, everyone knows that Poettering is too stupid to put his crap anywhere than into /bin (or /usr/bin if /bin points there).

Which init system for Debian?

Posted Nov 21, 2013 15:06 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Oh please, this isn't kindergarten; can we please find a way to do without the silly personal attacks?