Haines Brown <haines@???> wrote:

> 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

So you still have parts of Systemd installed then.
dpkg -l '*systemd*'

Try removing libsystemd0 and see what happens !