[systemd-devel] Systemd doesn't remove itself cleanly

[Ramkumar Ramachandra]

Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> I booted up my Debian machine with systemd, and removed systemd after
> bootup.  Now it refuses to halt with:
>
>   init: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl

Correction: I can't halt a Debian systemd machine at all (even when
the package isn't removed)!
It seems to be documented here though:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=657990

Ram