On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:23, Randy Morris<randy.morris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think of out all the options here, copying the current inittab to > .pacsave and installing a new, working inittab makes the most sense. > Then a user would at least have a chance to boot and read their logs to > see what happened if they even notice there is a problem. > This is exactly what Arch *doesn't* do, and it provides .pacnew files for this purpose.