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    systemdeez nuts (sh.itjust.works)
    submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    How the fuck is login and "the command line" still working? Maybe they did not reboot.

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago

    The reboot probably sent him straight to a virtual console.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I was curious too, so I tried it in a virtual machine

    It half installed sysvinit, systemd failed to get fully removed, and apt gave up due to too many post-install errors

    The reboot threw me into an init that asked for me to specify the runlevel (since there wasn’t anything in init.d)

    I guess they didn’t understand the difference between that question and a logged in shell

    My guess before trying it was that they somehow got stuck in Grub’s shell

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Yeah i remember debian installs sysvinit if you apt remove systemd and installs systemd if you apt remove sysvinit

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    haha why does debian bother adding this rule if the system will be left in broken state anyway

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Maybe because its still not a broken state? They could still add init files ig

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    (As the tester above) It is a broken state

    It failed to install the initscripts package because apt bailed out

    apt —fix-broken install got you a little closer, but the screenshot didn’t say they tried that

    My bet is this worked when systemd was first introduced, but since there’s not much use for it now, and sysvinit is deprecated, it just doesn’t accidentally work anymore

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I mean you still can use cli? So you can technically make an init file and boot?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    You can’t - it’s just asking what runlevel to launch, and there are no files for any runlevel

    You’d need to add init=/bin/sh through grub at that point

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    How are you running apt then?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I didn’t after breaking it and rebooting

    I restored the snapshot from before breaking the system and tried to see what would happen if I didn’t just reboot after apt bailed out

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

    Oh okay

    [–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

    As long as you can run vim, gcc and make, it's not broken.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

    initramfs recovery shell or they are trolling