On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 08:40 +0000, ski wrote: > I just want to make sure we aren't considering losing the option of > booting to single user mode. > You seem to not understand what single user mode is.
In System V, the only services missing in single user mode compared to multi-user mode are login services, such as getty, gdm, sshd, etc. It's not intended as a "recovery" mode. A modern Linux system needs running services to function even at a basic level. This, and the misuse of "single user mode", is where the current friendly recovery design falls over and fails. For example, the recovery menu is on /usr. If /usr is on a network filesystem mount, you need a large number of services: udev, dbus, hal, network-manager, portmap, rpc.statd, etc. These will all be running off the root filesystem, and thus prevent it from being checked. Scott -- Scott James Remnant [email protected] -- can't fsck / from friendly-recovery https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/363271 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
