I think you need to look a bit more closely at what's actually going into PID 1. See for example: http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/docs/systemd-dependencies

I think you need to look a bit more closely at what's actually going into PID 1. See for example: http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/docs/systemd-dependencies.html http://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/docs/systemd-dependenci... I don't see any logind/hostnamed/journald or any of that stuff in PID1.