Systemd/upgrade

This page only lists changes, which you need to consider before updating or will break your system. For all changes, see sys-apps/systemd's changelog or upstream's NEWS file.

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The compatibility symlinks and  pointing to   are deprecated. The ebuild checks, if your systems was booted using a compatibility symlinks and refuses to build the new version of systemd.

To upgrade systemd update your bootloader to use init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd and reboot the system.

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See the udev upgrade article.

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now depends on the for starting a display manager like GDM, KDM, etc. . So you have to create a new .service file, e.g. for KDM:

Now enable the new service, e.g. for KDM:

Afterwards starting KDM with systemd >=187 should work and you can disable and delete the old .service file (e.g. ).

For the rationale and more informations see the Fedora 18 feature "Display Manager Infrastructure Rework".

External resources

 * Upstream NEWS file