Problems after upgrading to F14

[Joe Zeff]

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?"