jeanrev Posted September 30, 2004 Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 Hi all, to-day I started on the failsafe branch at lilo's window just to check what would happens I ended up with a login on command line and i didn't know what to do there in the end I wanted to reboot but unluckily there was no response to shutdown -h now or halt I had to do a killall to get out of there and I wonder : 1 what is this failsafe for ? 2 How to come out of a man's page which doesn't give me back hand or reboot out of the command line session ? I tried google linux on failsafe & went deeper into perplexity on this unanswered question thanks for your attention Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted September 30, 2004 Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 (edited) Failsafe is the single-user mode. During bootup Linux starts a whole lot of processes (internet, sound X etc etc) and if something is wrong with one of these processes you have a problem. When you boot into single-user mode almost nothing gets started so the chance that you will hve a problem is very small. Once Linux is started you can begin to solve problems, fix things etc etc. In single user-mode you have to login (as root or as normal user). Type in your username and password like you always do. If you want to go to X you than type: init 5 (or init 3 and then startx). If you want to shutdown type: halt. Good luck edit: Something important I forgot: you always have root privileges in single-user mode. So be carefull. Edited September 30, 2004 by devries Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmsa Posted September 30, 2004 Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 [CTRL] +D or simple logout should reboot your machine. failsafe is more, much more then safe mode in wind00wz (if this tells you something). I think you can even do a chroot to you original / , start all your services, ad so on. It should be used more for debug purposes. A french link on the subject http://lists.ze-linux.org/2004-03/msg00568.html with an example. Good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeanrev Posted October 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 thanks a lot it will help next time I use it I'll take that the problem are solved and mark the thread solved - Artificial Intelligence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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