Lisi wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > probably about to tell me that it would. ;-) > > Yes. I am going to say, "It should work." :-) > > My curtiosity being even more 'satiable than the elephant's child, I tried. > > The short answer is it doesn't work.
Note that I didn't say that it /did/ work. I said it /should/ work. I said there might be "interesting corner cases". > The longer answer is that it threw the computer I was trying it on > into a fit of the sulks: the konsole kept going with a root command > prompt until there were enough to fill the screen. You did it from an X11 session running KDE and a Konsole? A brave soul indeed! Because surely you realize that all of those processes will be (or at least should be) killed when transitioning to single user mode. In single user mode only the minimum system should be running. All that you should be left with should be a text console. Everything else should have been killed during the transition. Therefore to prevent disruption you would want to transition using the text console. Because otherwise your interface will be killed. > At that point it froze (still in the GUI) and the keyboard stopped > working completely. I finally managed to sort it out by changing > keyboard 3 times (2 x ps2 and 1 x USB), and rebooting twice, when > the mouse at least (and at last) decided to wake up and I could do > anything at all. I was about to resort to the on/off button (a very > extreme solution!). After the first reboot the status had barely > changed, but a second reboot returned (or seems to have returned) > the system to normality. Note also that I did say I would only go into single user mode from a reboot and not from multiuser mode directly. I wouldn't transition to single user mode from multiuser mode directly myself. I recommended against it. But you had to try it! Okay. But you are cutting your own path then! :-) Stay on the well traveled path unless you want to be a trailblazer. > So - Oh my friends be warned by me! init 1 is fine. init s is not. > Paul has given a very clear exposition of the facts either above of > below, depending on how you thread your emails. > > Oh - and I ought to have learned from the elephant's child that 'satiable > curtiosity is sometimes highly undesirable. But it is probably a bit late > now for me to learn. Too funny! Sometimes "curiousity kills the cat" but if the cat survives then it is a smarter cat. :-) Bob
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