On 11/21/2016 07:25 PM, Eric Stone wrote:
Unless I made a mistake following the book, it seems 7.10-systemd
installations are unable to boot into linux single-user mode without
modification.  When “single” is added to the kernel boot parameters,
Systemd’s rescue.target (aka runlevel 1) looks for “sulogin” in a
different location than where it’s installed by following the LFS book.
Because of this, systemd just transitions on to the usual
graphical.target mode (aka runlevel 5).  I fixed this on my system by
issuing:


sudo ln -s /sbin/sulogin /usr/sbin/sulogin


I’m not certain what a better long-term fix for LFS is; move the sulogin
executable (like “passwd” gets moved per LFS instructions after
installing “shadow”), patch systemd to use the current location, or add
a symlink like I did.  Regardless it would be helpful to add this note
to 7.10-systemd errata, and improve the next LFS-systemd release.

Hey, thanks. Good catch. I can't say that I've had a need to use recovery mode in a very long time, certainly not before X is installed and systemd rebuilt. It should fix itself when you do the rebuild in BLFS. It happens because shadow is not yet installed. Fix is "SULOGIN=/sbin/sulogin ./configure..." Will get it into the book shortly.

--DJ

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