Re: Problems after upgrading to F14

On 03/29/2011 12:36 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 03/29/2011 12:18 PM, JD wrote:
Which init level?
I said I rebooted into single user mode!!
If you do not know how to do that, you need to read the wiki.
Instead of getting hysterical and trying (unsuccessfully) to insult me,
you might have noticed that I mentioned both init 1 and init 3. The
reason I wanted to confirm which init level you were really in is
because I couldn't be sure that *you* knew the difference. I've seen,
both here and at fedoraforum.org, enough posts from people who thought
that a CLI was "single user mode" that I don't assume that an unknown
poster really was in init 1 without checking.

Now that we know that, the question becomes, "Why use single user mode
for a yum update?" You could either have booted into text mode (init 3)
or used Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to a CLI after a normal boot, logged in as
root and done the update there. Or, easiest of all, done a normal boot,
logged in, started a terminal and used su. So: "Why use single user mode?"
I am neither hysterical nor insulting.
I merely thought that since you did not know that one
can boot directly into single user mode, (i.e. without
booting into the normal level 5, and then using a shell
terminal to "sudo init s"), I thought you are probably
a newbie, and thus suggested you read the wiki.
Why is that an insult?
And no, I did not do anything as you say in your
second paragraph.
So, keep you from guessing, please read
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/grub-boot-into-single-user-mode/

Cheers,

JD
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