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?"