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On Monday, March 21, 2016 03:02:49 PM Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2016-03-21, Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> > Anyone who boots directly to X'doze without first going through a safe |
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> > console login is a raging mad lunatic who needs his head examined. [...] |
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> A bit hyperbolic perhaps, but I've always been a firm believer in the |
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> "boot to console and start X from the command-line" theory. I've been |
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> doing it that way for almost 30 years now, and it's saved me |
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> innumerable headaches. |
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I've been booting into X directly for over 13 years (forgot the actual year) |
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now and only had an issue 3 times. |
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Every time I managed to easily fix it by using "init=/bin/sh" and fix it from |
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there. |
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And those have not happened often. (maybe 5 times at the most) |
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The trick is to run mostly stable and use your brain. |
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