On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:55 PM, David Rosenstrauch <darose@darose.net>wrote:
On 05/08/2011 02:15 PM, Heiko Baums wrote:
With the rc scripts it's only possible to having started xorg at boot time if the script is in the DAEMONS array. So if xorg fails for a reason and doesn't allow you to switch to console you need a LiveCD to first remove it from the DAEMONS to be able to use the system again.
Not true. You could fix this (rare) situation by booting into single user mode rather than a LiveCD.
Not sure I see why the rc scripts should be removed to handle this rare corner case ...
DR
I am going to agree, the removal of the rc scripts would not benefit this situation, booting into runlevel one, single user mode of init=/bin/bash can all solve this problem, a LiveCD is VERY rarely required for system recovery. I have been using the rc scripts for the display managers for over 6 years and NEVER had a problem with them. I would hate to see them leave because some users did not know how to boot into an alternative runlevel. -Thomas S Hatch