New on LowEndTalk? Please Register and read our Community Rules.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
All new Registrations are manually reviewed and approved, so a short delay after registration may occur before your account becomes active.
Upgrade Debian Wheezy to Jessie without systemd
itoffshore
Member
in Tutorials
Some scripts for anyone who would like to upgrade Debian Wheezy to Jessie without systemd
.
Both scripts work with openvz
so they should work for any vps.
Comments
I dist-upgraded my VPS and network was completely broken.
Firstly, Devuan is such wannabe shit, it's not worthy of any attention; it's highly surprising you seem to be seriously offering it as an option.
Secondly, why do you force 'upstart' onto people? It's not just mediocre and useless, it's rapidly becoming deprecated and unmaintained, as its authors (Ubuntu) have decided to stop working on it altogether.
This is how you properly get rid of systemd:
http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_remove_systemd_from_a_Debian_jessie/sid_installation
Tested, works well from any already installed Jessie system, and doesn't do any bizarre crap such as randomly installing "htop" or "inetutils-syslogd", removing "plymouth" and whatnot.
After a bit more checking it seems to only be Wheezy Openvz containers that are unable to install
sysvinit
(& requireupstart
to be installed to be able to boot).kvm
& unprivilegedlxc
containers both run withsysvinit
&openrc
.In my instructions for openvzplymouth
has to be removed now becausesysvinit
is not installable (previously installingsysvinit
would removeupstart
& also now before adist-upgrade
there is a version conflict betweenplymouth
&udev
).plymouth
is also a dependency ofupstart
& gets reinstalled with it after thedist-upgrade
.I just used them a week or so ago. Doesn't seem like anything has changed since then, https://packages.debian.org/jessie/sysvinit-core still available in Jessie.
Does anyone know how long until Debian 8 will work on OVZ without any tweaks?
"without systemd" - sigh...
On OVZ, the strategy with the fewest headaches would be to back up your personal data and to do a fresh installation of Debian 8. (A reinstall may be a nuisance, but this is the recommended way to upgrade on OVZ. Or you could stay with Debian 7 for a couple of more years.) In my experience, the Minimal template is less problematic to use than the Standard one.
I found the problem & the solution for Debian Jessie
openvz
containers withsysvinit
Jessie OVZ with
sysvinit
:openrc
works too.I have since moved to Ubuntu 16.04 in OpenVZ