Hi John,

Thanks for getting back to me.

This is the result:

r:~# apt-get -f install

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

Correcting dependencies... Done

The following packages will be REMOVED:

systemd

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

After this operation, 12.2 MB disk space will be freed.

Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

If I say Yes,

Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

(Reading database ... 96191 files and directories currently installed.)

Removing systemd (215-17+deb8u12) ...

systemd is the active init system, please switch to another before removing systemd.

dpkg: error processing package systemd (--remove):

subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

Failed to stop lib-init-rw.mount: Unit lib-init-rw.mount not loaded.

addgroup: The group `systemd-journal' already exists as a system group. Exiting.

Errors were encountered while processing:

systemd

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Which is understandable I guess but I've not found how to fix.

Cheers,

Richard.

On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 at 14:10, John Winters <john@sinodun.org.uk> wrote:

On 29/04/2019 12:53, Richard Glynos wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would be very grateful if any Debian expert out there could offer me
> some advice.
>
> Somehow, probably editing my sources.list(s) in response to the recent
> jessie updates removal, I have managed to break the apt update/upgrade
> process:
>
> :~# apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> systemd : Depends: udev (>= 208-8) but it is not installed
> Recommends: libpam-systemd but it is not installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
>
> After searching I've tried various suggested fixes such as
>
> apt-get -f install

That first one is the most likely one to clean things up.

What is the result when you run "apt-get -f install"?

Cheers,
John

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