On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Heiko Baums <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Sun, 8 May 2011 20:29:59 +0200 > schrieb Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx>: > >> As to the problem of a broken system: This is what single user mode is >> for. No need for a livecd. > > Is this really what single user mode is for? I haven't used it, yet. And > how do I switch or boot into single user mode? Same as booting into runlevel 3, just use 1 (or S) instead. I.e. append "1" to your kernel parameters in grub/syslinux. >> From my point of view there is no benefit to the inittab method and >> some benefit to the daemon method. > > I see it the other way round, because I still see no benefit from > starting daemons in the background. In fact I only saw regressions. My point was that with using DAEMONS you can do either. > [...] xorg should be > started as the last application, if the user doesn't know what he is > doing. Agreed. Cheers, Tom
