5. Re: single user mode (Hans Henry von Tresckow)

[Brian Wootton]

On 08/01/11 06:45, kubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
>>> Before I tear my remaining hair(s) out, does anybody know how to get
>>> >>  kubuntu 10.04 LTS into single user mode?
>>> >>    telinit 1 don't work, init 1 don't work and I've pretty well pushed the
>>> >>  shift keys out the bottom of the keyboard during a reboot, that don't work.
>>> >>    Googling for 'single user mode' and 'telinit 1' tells me that others have
>>> >>  experienced this problem but none of their solutions work for me.
>> >
>> >  Have you tried esc?
>> >
>> >  Or a combination of shift and esc?
>> >
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> I think esc during boot will bring up the grub menu. If you don't have
> any "rescue" entries, just edit the comand line ('e') and add 'single'
> to the end.
>
Tried both of these - no good - whatever should happen just gets 
trampled over by the
full system boot into multi-user mode.
   All the manual entries say that 'telinit 1' is the way to do it, but 
all that does is bring up the
KDE default login screen (with the dots in the middle) and sit there 
forever - maybe I should
submit a bug report?
I'm running on an amd 64bit  based machine.
brian