Netiquette Guidelines (was: Re: Access ZFS pool in debian 10 single user mode)

2020-09-03 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 15:46:07 -0700 David Christensen wrote: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style > > > This is a popular essay on the subject: > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html You may also want to look at RFC 1855 "Netiquette Guidelines". ESR recommends it. https

Re: Access ZFS pool in debian 10 single user mode

2020-09-03 Thread David Christensen
t-questions.html [Back to the technical discussion.] I appears that Debian single-user mode does not load the kernel modules you need. I assume this is by design, so that you can boot the system when you have a bad module. Loading modules by hand in single user mode might work, but there

Re: Access ZFS pool in debian 10 single user mode

2020-09-03 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
may be you need to import zpool before? try zpool import Best, Alex On 9/3/20 10:34 AM, James Allsopp wrote: This is just debian grub recovery mode so on the same machine, so hopefully zfsutil will be there. Looked at this; zfs                  4214784  9 zunicode              335872  1 zfs z

Re: Access ZFS pool in debian 10 single user mode

2020-09-03 Thread James Allsopp
This is just debian grub recovery mode so on the same machine, so hopefully zfsutil will be there. Looked at this; zfs 4214784 9 zunicode 335872 1 zfs zlua 172032 1 zfs zavl 16384 1 zfs icp 331776 1 zfs zcommon

Re: Access ZFS pool in debian 10 single user mode

2020-09-02 Thread Dan Ritter
James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > Just trying to move var to a zfs partition. Rebooted into recovery mode, > but could access the zfs pool. I tried to modprobe zfs, but still nothing. > Is there something else I should be doing? > Does your recovery mode have the zfs kernel modules and zfsutil? With

Access ZFS pool in debian 10 single user mode

2020-09-02 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, Just trying to move var to a zfs partition. Rebooted into recovery mode, but could access the zfs pool. I tried to modprobe zfs, but still nothing. Is there something else I should be doing? Thanks James

Re: USB data corruption except in single user mode

2011-05-12 Thread Arno Schuring
jida...@jidanni.org (jida...@jidanni.org on 2011-05-11 21:58 +0800): > What does it mean here on sid, when plugging in memory cards works > fine in single user mode, with only [..] > running, but then in multi user mode, with [..] > running, plugging in many of the same memory card

USB data corruption except in single user mode

2011-05-11 Thread jidanni
What does it mean here on sid, when plugging in memory cards works fine in single user mode, with only # pstree init-+-init---bash---emacs-+-aspell | `-bash---pstree `-udevd---2*[udevd] running, but then in multi user mode, with # pstree init-+-acpi_fakekeyd

Re: Inquiry: run fsck in single user mode

2009-08-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-19 23:44, hadi motamedi wrote: Dear Niu With many thanks for your reply , I tried to force fsck after reboot as the followings : #cd / #touch /forcefsck #reboot Can you please do me favor and let me know if this is the same as your proposed procedure (since I am not familiar with your

Re: Inquiry: run fsck in single user mode

2009-08-19 Thread hadi motamedi
:06 PM, Ron Johnson > ron.l.john...@cox.net>> wrote: >> >>On 2009-08-17 01:35, hadi motamedi wrote: >> >>Dear All >>I have an Linux server that gets problemy from sudden power >>cut . I need to >>run fsck in single

Re: Inquiry: run fsck in single user mode

2009-08-19 Thread Niu Kun
All I have an Linux server that gets problemy from sudden power cut . I need to run fsck in single user mode so I issued "#init 1" on the server . At the server prompt , to serialize the fsck on the intended file system , I first

Re: Inquiry: run fsck in single user mode

2009-08-19 Thread hadi motamedi
om sudden power cut . I need >> to >> run fsck in single user mode so I issued "#init 1" on the server . At the >> server prompt , to serialize the fsck on the intended file system , I >> first >> tried to unmount the intended file system and then issue the f

Re: Inquiry: run fsck in single user mode

2009-08-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-17 01:35, hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All I have an Linux server that gets problemy from sudden power cut . I need to run fsck in single user mode so I issued "#init 1" on the server . At the server prompt , to serialize the fsck on the intended file system , I first tried

Re: Inquiry: run fsck in single user mode

2009-08-19 Thread hadi motamedi
g 17, 2009 at 07:35:46AM +0100, hadi motamedi wrote: > > Dear All > > I have an Linux server that gets problemy from sudden power cut . I need > to > > run fsck in single user mode so I issued "#init 1" on the server . At the > > server prompt , to serialize the f

Re: Inquiry: run fsck in single user mode

2009-08-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 07:35:46AM +0100, hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > I have an Linux server that gets problemy from sudden power cut . I need to > run fsck in single user mode so I issued "#init 1" on the server . At the > server prompt , to serialize the fsck on th

Inquiry: run fsck in single user mode

2009-08-16 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear All I have an Linux server that gets problemy from sudden power cut . I need to run fsck in single user mode so I issued "#init 1" on the server . At the server prompt , to serialize the fsck on the intended file system , I first tried to unmount the intended file system and then

Re: Debian Single User mode from grub how??

2005-10-26 Thread mikepolniak
On 22:46 Wed 26 Oct , amalgam.swhe wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 07:45:58PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > > Hi, > > > > How can I get into the Debian Sarge Single user mode from grub? > > without giving a password??? > > > > passing the "single

Re: Debian Single User mode from grub how??

2005-10-26 Thread amalgam.swhe
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 07:45:58PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > How can I get into the Debian Sarge Single user mode from grub? > without giving a password??? > > passing the "single" option doesn't seem to work :-( set init=/bin/bash? > > Kin

Debian Single User mode from grub how??

2005-10-26 Thread Siju George
Hi, How can I get into the Debian Sarge Single user mode from grub? without giving a password??? passing the "single" option doesn't seem to work :-( Kind Regards Siju

Re: I can not boot in single user mode without root password

2005-10-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:14:45PM +0800, rosetta wrote: > Yes..But I didn't install the sudo. > And I want to reset the root password without "rescure CD" or some > else. Because the debian reference say single user mode can reset the > password. Hi Rosetta, There i

Re: I can not boot in single user mode without root password

2005-09-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
rosetta: > > I am using the kernel-2.6.11-1-386 and grub. > In boot menu, I have choosed the "recovery mode". But while the > system boot completely, it prompt "Give root password for > mantenance(or Control-D to continue):". > If I press ctrl+d, then it will use normal runlevel. It's a fea

Re: I can not boot in single user mode without root password

2005-09-27 Thread rosetta
Yes..But I didn't install the sudo. And I want to reset the root password without "rescure CD" or some else. Because the debian reference say single user mode can reset the password. On 9/27/05, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nelson Castillo quoted someone who

Re: I can not boot in single user mode without root password

2005-09-27 Thread Kent West
Nelson Castillo quoted someone who wrote: >>system boot completely, it prompt "Give root password for >>mantenance(or Control-D to continue):". >> If I press ctrl+d, then it will use normal runlevel. >> How can I use 1 runlevel if I forget the root password in grub? >> This doesn't sound like a

Re: I can not boot in single user mode without root password

2005-09-27 Thread Nelson Castillo
> system boot completely, it prompt "Give root password for > mantenance(or Control-D to continue):". > If I press ctrl+d, then it will use normal runlevel. > How can I use 1 runlevel if I forget the root password in grub? Hi. I guess you'll have to use a "rescue" CD. A knoppix CD will do. A

I can not boot in single user mode without root password

2005-09-27 Thread rosetta
hi I am using the kernel-2.6.11-1-386 and grub. In boot menu, I have choosed the "recovery mode". But while the system boot completely, it prompt "Give root password for mantenance(or Control-D to continue):". If I press ctrl+d, then it will use normal runlevel. How can I use 1 runlevel if

Solved: Root can't login (but can in single user mode)

2002-11-20 Thread Xaveer Leijtens
I finally solved the problem. My /etc/environment had a single line LANG=nl_NL@euro which (for unknown reasons) caused the problems. Removing this line did the trick. Now that I can login as root again, I still wonder why this is causing trouble in the first place and also why it only prevents r

Re: Root can't login (but can in single user mode)

2002-11-15 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Stephen" == Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stephen> Somewhere in /etc/pam.d (maybe security?) there is an Stephen> option to disable root console logins. You might check Stephen> to see if that's been enabled. /etc/pam.d/login # Disallows root logins except on tty's l

Re: Root can't login (but can in single user mode)

2002-11-15 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Xaveer Leijtens said: > >> I run debian woody on a number of machines, but on one of them I can't > >> login as root. Only if I reboot in single user mode, everything is fine. > > > Did this start after a crash? A similar thing hap

Re: Root can't login (but can in single user mode)

2002-11-15 Thread Nick Mitchell
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 11:53:47 +0100 Xaveer Leijtens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I run debian woody on a number of machines, but on one of them I can't > >> login as root. Only if I reboot in single user mode, everything is fine. > > > Did this start afte

Re: Root can't login (but can in single user mode)

2002-11-15 Thread Xaveer Leijtens
>> I run debian woody on a number of machines, but on one of them I can't >> login as root. Only if I reboot in single user mode, everything is fine. > Did this start after a crash? A similar thing happened to me a while back, > my machine crashed and then no user cou

Re: Root can't login (but can in single user mode)

2002-11-09 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 22:20:33 +0100 Xaveer Leijtens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I run debian woody on a number of machines, but on one of them I can't > login as root. Only if I reboot in single user mode, everything is fine. Did this start after a crash? A similar thing happe

Root can't login (but can in single user mode)

2002-11-04 Thread Xaveer Leijtens
I run debian woody on a number of machines, but on one of them I can't login as root. Only if I reboot in single user mode, everything is fine. I also tried to login via 'ssh root@localhost', and it does prompt for (and accepts) the password, but stops after displaying /etc/motd.

Re: single-user mode? strange

2001-06-26 Thread Aquila
The problem is caused by some problems in the libpam* packages. To boot into single user mode, if you're using lilo, just append "s" to the end of your image name when you boot, like: LILO: linux s It will then boot and ask you for root password, which will work. Then down

single-user mode? strange

2001-06-26 Thread Daniel Patrick Berdine
I recently ran dselect and did an upgrade with unstable which had the result that I can't log in at all (typing 'root' at the login promt returns Login Incorrect, I don't even get to try the password, similar results with the kdm login screen). My first thought was to boot i

Re: How to boot into single user mode?

1999-04-07 Thread Shao Zhang
When boot up, type linux single or linux emergency Rob Lundahl wrote: > Help my x-windows went south and Debian cycles on > the xdm login. > > To fix it I need to login. Can I stop it from going automatically > to X windows? > > Rob > > _

Re: How to boot into single user mode?

1999-04-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
add "single" as a parameter to the kernel image that you boot...So get the boot: prompt by hitting the shift key at the LILO prompt. Then hit tab to see what kernel images you have available. Type in the name of the kernel image, followed by a space, followed by "single" and hit re

Re: How to boot into single user mode?

1999-04-06 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 4/6/99 11:51:56 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > To fix it I need to login. Can I stop it from going automatically > to X windows? > 1) If you're using hamm - put "no-xdm" in your /etc/X11/options file to prevent xdm from starting On any system you sh

How to boot into single user mode?

1999-04-06 Thread Rob Lundahl
Help my x-windows went south and Debian cycles on the xdm login. To fix it I need to login. Can I stop it from going automatically to X windows? Rob _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: how to boot into single user mode?

1998-08-28 Thread joost
Hi, This is explained in the manpage for init(1). Quoting man init: ---cut--- BOOTFLAGS It is possible to pass a number of flags to init from the boot monitor (eg. LILO). Init accepts the following flags: S, single Single user mode boot. In this mode /etc

Re: how to boot into single user mode?

1998-08-27 Thread Østergaard
> i figure the only way to fix this is to boot into single user > mode and remove the xdm entries, however i am not sure > how to do this in linux... needless to say i am feeling very > stupid right about now. any help would be appreciated. There's nothing to feel stupid about.

Re: how to boot into single user mode?

1998-08-27 Thread Jay Barbee
and i am > now unable to login at the console. i am also not able to > remote login because the console is secured against root > ogins and i did not create any user accounts. > > i figure the only way to fix this is to boot into single user > mode and remove the xdm entries, howe

how to boot into single user mode?

1998-08-27 Thread Daryl Williams
ogins and i did not create any user accounts. i figure the only way to fix this is to boot into single user mode and remove the xdm entries, however i am not sure how to do this in linux... needless to say i am feeling very stupid right about now. any help would be appreciated. //daryl

Re: single user mode

1998-02-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 08:20:32PM +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >If this doesn't work, I don't think you have a choice. > > Ofcourse you can always boot into maintenance mode instead of single > use mode (boot with "linux maintenance" or "linux -b"). It will get > you a root shell direct

Re: single user mode

1998-02-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If shadow passwords have been fouled up, the correct password may be none at >all. >> Would a better approach be to boot off the Rescue disk to run fsck?k > >If this doesn't work, I don't think you have a choice.

Re: single user mode

1998-02-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Doug Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >During the boot process the system stops and queries the user for >a password. This happens when checking root (/dev/hda3 check forced... >and root is mounted read-only. >Aparently, the root file system has been corrupted as

Re: single user mode

1998-02-05 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
> During the boot process the system stops and queries the user for > a password. This happens when checking root (/dev/hda3 check forced... > and root is mounted read-only. > Aparently, the root file system has been corrupted as it contains an > unattached inode. My question: what is the passw

single user mode

1998-02-05 Thread Doug Smith
During the boot process the system stops and queries the user for a password. This happens when checking root (/dev/hda3 check forced... and root is mounted read-only. Aparently, the root file system has been corrupted as it contains an unattached inode. My question: what is the password? It wo

Re: Running defrag in single user mode...

1997-12-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Quick question from a non-unix person who doesn't >want to break something "just poking around"... > >How does one go into "single user" mode, then start >the multi user

Re: Running defrag in single user mode...

1997-12-06 Thread Joey Hess
Oliver Elphick wrote: > In 10 years of using Unix and Linux I have never had to defragment a disk. > > This isn't a Micro$oft product... > > Can anyone suggest why one might want to defragment a disk in Linux? I have a partition that is 15% fragmeneted (after a year and a half of use..) I'm star

Re: Running defrag in single user mode...

1997-12-06 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Oliver Elphick writes: > > In 10 years of using Unix and Linux I have never had to defragment a disk. > > This isn't a Micro$oft product... > > Can anyone suggest why one might want to defragment a disk in Linux? > On a related issue... Doesn't Unix load data on demand? i.e. when you

Re: Running defrag in single user mode...

1997-12-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
Curt Howland hat gesagt: // Curt Howland wrote: > Quick question from a non-unix person who doesn't > want to break something "just poking around"... > > How does one go into "single user" mode, then start > the multi user functions again? > > I

Re: Running defrag in single user mode...

1997-12-06 Thread Oliver Elphick
Curt Howland wrote: >How does one go into "single user" mode, then start >the multi user functions again? > >I pulled a defrag package down, but it won't run >(for blatently obvious reasons) in multi-mode. In 10 years of using Unix and Linux I have never h

Re: Running defrag in single user mode...

1997-12-06 Thread Carey Evans
Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How does one go into "single user" mode, then start > the multi user functions again? The way I do it, when there aren't bigger problems: At the console, as root, enter "telinit 1". To leave single-user mode,

Re: Running defrag in single user mode...

1997-12-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Curt Howland wrote: > > Quick question from a non-unix person who doesn't > want to break something "just poking around"... > > How does one go into "single user" mode, then start > the multi user functions again? At the lilo prompt, type your ima

Re: Running defrag in single user mode...

1997-12-05 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Single-user mode is also known as runlevel 1. To go to any runlevel, as root run 'telinit [level]' -- so 'telinit 1' would bring you to single-user mode, 'telinit 0' would shut down the system, 'telinit 6' would reboot.. and 'telinit 2' (or 3 o

Running defrag in single user mode...

1997-12-05 Thread Curt Howland
Quick question from a non-unix person who doesn't want to break something "just poking around"... How does one go into "single user" mode, then start the multi user functions again? I pulled a defrag package down, but it won't run (for blatently obvious reasons) i

Re: Preventing single user mode

1997-10-22 Thread Timm Gleason
D'OH! Well then, didn't really think to look at the man page for lilo.conf. Thanks for the assist. Timm On Wed, 22 Oct 1997 12:44:19 -0700, Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, 22 Oct 1997 18:27:53 GMT Timm Gleason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> Philippe Troin mentioned someth

Re: Preventing single user mode

1997-10-22 Thread Philippe Troin
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997 18:27:53 GMT Timm Gleason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Philippe Troin mentioned something about a password option, > > >Lilo has a password option (which you probably want to use with the > >restricted option too). RTFM. > > but I have been unable to find anything about thi

Re: Preventing single user mode

1997-10-22 Thread Timm Gleason
replace the server and fix it when it comes back. So I could secure the floppy by removing it. I am more concerned with the possibility of booting into single-user mode off of a straight boot process. As we don't ship out servers with boot disks (even thought it is fairly easy to get your han

Re: Preventing single user mode

1997-10-22 Thread David Wright
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Timm Gleason wrote: > Does anyone out there know of a way to prevent a Debian box from being > able to boot into single user mode? We have removed any sort of delay= > settings from the lilo.conf, and this makes it extremely difficult to > get into that mode,

Re: Preventing single user mode

1997-10-21 Thread Philippe Troin
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997 14:43:07 GMT Timm Gleason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Does anyone out there know of a way to prevent a Debian box from being > able to boot into single user mode? We have removed any sort of delay= > settings from the lilo.conf, and this makes it extremely difficult

Preventing single user mode

1997-10-21 Thread Timm Gleason
Does anyone out there know of a way to prevent a Debian box from being able to boot into single user mode? We have removed any sort of delay= settings from the lilo.conf, and this makes it extremely difficult to get into that mode, but does not prevent it. Any help? Timm Gleason Hardware

Re: booting into single user mode

1997-08-10 Thread Martin Schulze
> > I was in too much of a hurry upgrading some packages from unstable > and didn't install ncurses3.4 and my system is messed up. > I need to reboot into single user mode and can't remember what > to type at the lilo prompt. Linux single (just add single after your k

booting into single user mode

1997-08-10 Thread Sue Campbell
I was in too much of a hurry upgrading some packages from unstable and didn't install ncurses3.4 and my system is messed up. I need to reboot into single user mode and can't remember what to type at the lilo prompt. - Sue -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word &q

Re: changing file perms. in single user mode

1997-07-22 Thread OLH
Ole B Hansen 22-07-97 09:18 Test af svar-agent fra OLH -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

changing file perms. in single user mode

1997-05-20 Thread Eloy A. Paris
them under /var/tmp and /tmp after editing /etc/fstab. I was in maintenance mode (single user mode), mode that I entered with "shutdown now". After the new filesystems were mounted I wanted to set the permissions of /tmp /var/tmp to be the same as the old directories in the / and /

Re: how to boot single-user mode?

1996-08-14 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
27; which will even skip the sysinit script (in case you have a REAL problem that you systemget stuck before it is able to enter single user mode). Greetings Bernd

Re: how to boot single-user mode?

1996-08-14 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Ken Gaugler wrote: > Last night I tried and tried to get my system to come up in single > user mode (so I could do some major filesystem changes). I couldn't > get it to come up single-user. I tried booting from the original > install boot floppy, and

Re: how to boot single-user mode?

1996-08-14 Thread Christopher R. Hertel
On Aug 13, 7:44am, Ken Gaugler wrote: > Subject: how to boot single-user mode? : Last night I tried and tried to get my system to come up in : single user mode (so I could do some major filesystem changes). : I couldn't get it to come up single-user. I tried booting from : the original

RE: how to boot single-user mode?

1996-08-14 Thread wb2oyc
On 11:44:51 Ken Gaugler wrote: >>Last night I tried and tried to get my system to come up in >single user mode (so I could do some major filesystem changes). Ken, I'm not certain, but you can get to it by issuing the command 'telinit 1' while logged in as root. Thats o

Re: how to boot single-user mode?

1996-08-14 Thread Shaya Potter
this helps Shaya -- Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Ken Gaugler wrote: > Last night I tried and tried to get my system to come up in > single user mode (so I could do some major filesystem changes). > I couldn't get it to come up single-user. I tried booting fro

how to boot single-user mode?

1996-08-13 Thread Ken Gaugler
Last night I tried and tried to get my system to come up in single user mode (so I could do some major filesystem changes). I couldn't get it to come up single-user. I tried booting from the original install boot floppy, and to my surprise it booted up my kernel on the hard disk?!?!?! I cou