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 services are using outdated libraries and restart them manually.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 Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141020113812.GA20122@x101h
