On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 04:22:26PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote:
> Haines Brown <haines@???> wrote:
>
> > Just a side note. I installed Sid on a x250 Thinkpad and then replaced
> > systemd with sysVinit. Things seem to be working just fine, although
> > admittedly I didn't install any desktop environment.
>
> Did you also try removing the rest of SystemD ?

No. I installed sysvinit-core sysvinit sysvinit-utils, rebooted, and
then did:

# apt-get remove --purge --auto-remove systemd

   # echo -e '\n\nPackage: *systemd*\nPin: origin ""\nPin-Priority:   \
       -1' >> /etc/apt/preferences.d/systemd