Re: Single user mode exits unexpectedly

2012-01-01 Thread Janos Dohanics
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:39:41 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:57:04 -0500, Janos Dohanics wrote: > > I have just rebuilt world and kernel according to the Handbook, > > installed the new kernel, rebooted, logged in, issued "sudo shutdown > > now" - the machine entered single user

Re: Single user mode exits unexpectedly

2011-12-31 Thread Janos Dohanics
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:39:41 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:57:04 -0500, Janos Dohanics wrote: > > I have just rebuilt world and kernel according to the Handbook, > > installed the new kernel, rebooted, logged in, issued "sudo shutdown > > now" - the machine entered single user

Re: Single user mode exits unexpectedly

2011-12-31 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:57:04 -0500, Janos Dohanics wrote: > I have just rebuilt world and kernel according to the Handbook, > installed the new kernel, rebooted, logged in, issued "sudo shutdown > now" - the machine entered single user mode, then immediately exited > without any intervention by me

Re: Single user mode: no shell prompt

2010-10-27 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello Illoai Am 27.10.2010 18:14, schrieb ill...@gmail.com: On 20 October 2010 03:50, Martin Schweizer wrote: Hello If I start the server in single user mode I get never a prompt/shell (at the console). After successfully boot in single user mode I see a the last line: "Trying to mount root

Re: Single User Mode

2006-01-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello, The following sounds like you are having a LINUX problem. Threfore, you should post on the relevent LINUX Email list. This is a FreeBSD questions list. FreeBSD is not related to LINUX. It is a completely separate operating system. Now, if you wish to upgrade your environment to FreeBSD

Re: Single User Mode

2006-01-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
Anirban Adhikary wrote: > This is anirban here.Our offices linux server is connected in a network .I > have deleted the pango rpm pango 1.8.1-2 while working on it but i dont > delete the depencies of pango. I used the command > rpm -e pango --nodeps. > But after that i cant login in the machine a

Re: SIngle User Mode Help

2004-03-06 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Learn vi for use in such circumstances or maybe ee. You don't want to The editors/e3 port is a nice one for /bin as it has vi and emacs (and more) flavors in only 12840 bytes, amazingly. ___ [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: SIngle User Mode Help

2004-03-05 Thread Joe Pokupec
Joe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry McAllister Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 7:55 AM To: Joshua Lokken Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SIngle User Mode Help > > * Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-

Re: SIngle User Mode Help

2004-03-05 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-06 06:00]: > > > > > > Hey Guys, > > > > > > > > I'm constantly botching up my fstab file and the system will fail to boot > > > You're right to make a copy before tinkering. > > > > > > That is correct, but, of course, it only gets the root (/) fi

Re: SIngle User Mode Help

2004-03-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > * Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-06 02:42]: > > > > > > Hey Guys, > > > > > > I'm constantly botching up my fstab file and the system will fail to boot > > > correctly. I've learned to create a working fstab and call is fstab.orig > > > which I can overwrite the botched file i

Re: SIngle User Mode Help

2004-03-05 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-06 02:42]: > > > > Hey Guys, > > > > I'm constantly botching up my fstab file and the system will fail to boot > > correctly. I've learned to create a working fstab and call is fstab.orig > > which I can overwrite the botched file if I end up in Sin

Re: SIngle User Mode Help

2004-03-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hey Guys, > > I'm constantly botching up my fstab file and the system will fail to boot > correctly. I've learned to create a working fstab and call is fstab.orig > which I can overwrite the botched file if I end up in Single User Mode... You're right to make a copy before tinkering. > I ca

Re: SIngle User Mode Help

2004-03-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 4 March 2004 at 23:48:05 -0900, Joe Pokupec wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I'm constantly botching up my fstab file and the system will fail to boot > correctly. I've learned to create a working fstab and call is fstab.orig > which I can overwrite the botched file if I end up in Single User M

Re: Single user mode, non writeable /tmp

2003-12-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joachim Dagerot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just posted a problem regarding vinum where this question was > hidden: > > > My system starts with an error: > > "init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally, going to single user > mode" > > This is because a disk has broken down. But my que

Re: single-user mode

2003-12-04 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 04 December 2003 08:41 am, Dru wrote: > It's been a while since I've had to enter single-user mode and I've just > discovered that "boot -s" doesn't work at the "boot" prompt on 5.1-RELEASE. > (however, it does work nicely if I interrupt loader at the next boot > stage). > > In fact, I

Re: single user mode

2003-03-01 Thread taxman
On Friday 28 February 2003 12:57 pm, Mike Meyer wrote: > Since nobody else stepped forward with an answer, I'll try > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > No I can think of kludgy ways to do this, but I want to know the way > > it should be done. How can you

Re: single user mode

2003-02-28 Thread Mike Meyer
Since nobody else stepped forward with an answer, I'll try In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > No I can think of kludgy ways to do this, but I want to know the way > it should be done. How can you tell from with a shell script whether you > are in single-user m