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