From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O8yjF-0003fY-OT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 May 2010 16:42:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D6C24E075B; Mon, 3 May 2010 16:42:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2B31E075B for ; Mon, 3 May 2010 16:42:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe12 with SMTP id 12so840261yxe.32 for ; Mon, 03 May 2010 09:42:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=/OTbSwyyEFl76eFVdIyAMFTwfs4tOfdZ48WcZpbqcw8=; b=h/09IIInEOREWfp9KJceFFuCR0l7bU0GPAGerGgbzmkfwK92HXRB8RX2mcwIdoI994 OsWmq5OZXoM3b6TKq9j5NtMgY4nCvjEB8g1701Aw4tNLKsxIxK0X8uBjSrApv0VD0JVh UlFHL7iOuNplDgmvBxcTN0mXMFOczc/4nfSFA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=JWpbFHCzf7/yQRLYKGH8mkvP3swac/xRdk/FyB7LpfKEL3hruB/YuxsELULxRNcHXU WYySfiMUQ2+6LuSsgtm95y8fQDMr7tpD1NEOv43S9V/J4Bbj6GTOfM3obgcPWEs6To+T 9485jAiRMgo1T6xbKFYEL+BDS01H8PpceW/ck= Received: by 10.101.199.40 with SMTP id b40mr2764512anq.67.1272904920285; Mon, 03 May 2010 09:42:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-95-109-94.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.109.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 22sm1682016yxe.9.2010.05.03.09.41.59 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 03 May 2010 09:41:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4BDEFCD5.3030007@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 11:41:57 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100409 Gentoo/2.0.4-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.4 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Frozen after Upgrade References: <201005031604.31984.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <201005031656.04901.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20100503162232.GA21314@math.princeton.edu> In-Reply-To: <20100503162232.GA21314@math.princeton.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4beb4813-c661-4dcc-9d02-3e9af555205d X-Archives-Hash: cd2b84ee7a4c6c1f79686be9f374abba Willie Wong wrote: > On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 04:56:04PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >>> I don't understand what you mean by booting to a single user >>> maintenance mode. How do I do that? >>> >> At the grub menu, select the kernel you wish to boot. >> Press "e" >> Move cursor to the "kernel" line >> Press "e" >> Move cursor to the end of the line. Append " 1" or " single" >> > Uh, I thought that, per discussions a few weeks ago, we've concluded > that in Gentoo that will still land you in the default runlevel. > Instead you should append > softlevel=single > to the end of the line, and continue from hereon. > > >> Press >> Press "b" >> >> > Cheers, > > W > I had trouble with that a while back to but I think it was fixed. Of course, this may only be true if you updated whatever it is that fixed it. ;-) I am up to date here as of last night and softlevel=single worked a couple weeks ago and has worked for several months. I guess you could always just try it and see which one works. If one of them doesn't work, it needs to be reported I guess. I would be willing to bet that Alan's way will work. Adding init=/bin/bash always works from my experience. Just keep in mind that you have to reboot when done and make sure you are mounted rw instead of ro. Dale :-) :-)