#10444 NORM Not Tri: Single user mode on an XO starts dueling shell prompts, keeps others running

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#10444: Single user mode on an XO starts dueling shell prompts, keeps others
running
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           Reporter:  greenfeld    |       Owner:  dsd                              
               Type:  defect       |      Status:  new                              
           Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Not Triaged                      
          Component:  initscripts  |     Version:  Development build as of this date
         Resolution:               |    Keywords:                                   
        Next_action:  never set    |    Verified:  0                                
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Comment(by greenfeld):

 Replying to [comment:1 dsd]:
 > The init man page basically says that using runlevel S is invalid.

 Interesting; this may vary between inits, as well as the scripts
 underlying them.  "init 1" does behave as expected.

 On a pre-F14 system, the telinit(8) man page {using the upstart sysinit}
 says S or s puts the system in single user mode without stopping anything.

 On my laptop {using sysvinit}, s or S brings the system to single user
 mode gracefully, and according to the man page can function even without
 /etc/inittab present.  No mention of leaving other processes running is
 made.  F11 uses sysvinit 2.86 just like my cloned Gentoo laptop does, but
 points to a different source URL.

 I don't think FreeBSD's init knows what S or s is.  Google suggests that
 other *NIX's may treat S or s to mean "start single user mode with the
 terminal on this console".

 So this may indeed be as designed, just distribution dependent.

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