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 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
