Re: Debian 10 guest not starting (was: Issue with Debian 9 guest system)

On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 11:29:23AM +0100, Romain RiviÚre wrote:
> Hello,

> On 12/03/2019 09:38, [email protected] wrote:
>> Small addendum:
>> I yesterday tested your (Ben) addition in the build string for building a _guest_ system with Debian 9 (Stretch) with

>> --include=sysvinit-core,lsb-release --exclude=systemd

>> and it worded fine! :-)

> I'm trying to build a Debian Buster container using something
> similar, but so far it has not worked for me. 

> In spite of the "--exclude=systemd", the systemd package gets
> installed alongside sysvinit-core/-utils, and the container
> refuses to start with a message similar to Thorsten's (which
> is why I'm hijacking the thread since it's probably related,
> hoping that's OK).

> Purging systemd right after debootstrap is done does not help.

You might want to take a look at Devuan (https://devuan.org/)
which is a fork of Debian without systemd.

Maybe it helps,
Herbert

> Building a Stretch container is not a problem at all using the
> same command line to build it.

> This is on a Gentoo host with a 4.9-vs2.3.9.7 kernel and the
> 0.30.216_pre3131 utils.

> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated :)

> Cheers
> -- 
> Romain