Re: And now for something completely different... etch!
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:15:18PM +0200, Benjamin Mesing wrote:
>
> > If your X configuration is broken and your X won't start then that is
> > effectively the same thing as the proposed run level 3 anyway. So
> > what is the point?
> Well, I used to have problems with my graphiccard that hard locked the
> system on startup. Being able to do boot into runlevel (RL) 3 without X
> (that was back on SuSE), was really nice. I know single user mode can
> handle this, but single user is not very comfortable (Who wants to work
> with only one tty?).
Nobody. However, you're assuming that xdm et al will keep trying to
start an X server, even if it fails. Luckily, the respective initscripts
are far more clever than that.
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