Since a while the command init 0 or init 6 is not doing anything in Konsole or xterm

I’m used to do updates directliy in Konsole (zypper ref / up / dup) and if needed I restarted or shut down the computer with the init 0 or init 6 command. Worked finde until a couple of days ago. But from then on these commands have no effect anymore ( Tested with KDE Konsole as well as with the classic xterm). Can this be fixed or are these commands removed as being depreciated?
Thanks for your help.

Please always SHOW what you do. Copy/paste all lines starting with the command you give, then all output up to and includng the new prompt line. (And use Preformatted text, the button </> for posting the paste).

You suggest the command is removed, in that case you (and when you show, we also) would see something like “command not found”.

In any case init is replaced by systemd years ago. Thus I can imagine that it is gone now. But you still have e.g. reboot, or systemctl reboot or systemctl isolate reboot.target (or another target).

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It is related to systemd Version update (257.9 → 258.3), see New Tumbleweed snapshot 20260205 released!

  • Support for System V style system state control has been removed: drop
    initctl, runlevel, runlevel*.target, etc… from the sysvcompat sub-package

Thank you for your hints. I assumed that this command was removed because it is depreciated

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