Re: Avoid reboot by loading initramfs again
Hi.
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 11:13:38AM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
> The other alternative, for a "lighter" reboot is to drop to runlevel 1
> (or single-user.target, in systemd's parlance). This will stop all the
> mutli-user services (X, httpd, sshd and so on) and bring you to a point
> where only a minimal number of services are running (file systems are
> mounted, the local console is active and so on). You could use
> "checkrestart" (from the debian-goodies package) to check what remaining
> services are using outdated libraries and restart them manually. At this
> point, you can come back up to runlevel 2-5 (systemd: multi-user.target)
> in order to bring the system back up to full capacity.
I don't know about systemd, but for Debian's sysvinit returning from the
single-user is not that good idea - [1]. I'm unsure whenever it's
supported now, but I've seen myself init 1 → init 2 sequence deadlocking
on rpcbind.
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=142424
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