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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes: |
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> On Monday 19 July 2010 20:58:37 Allan Gottlieb wrote: |
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>> I am unable to umount /usr in single user mode on an old system. |
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>> I believe the system is baselayout-1 and is amd64. |
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>> The trouble is open files, at least some of which appear to be related |
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>> to bash and locale (see the files below). |
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>> I use grub. On the kernel line can I specify sh instead of bash? |
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> Not directly. grub and init does not know about, or even care about, bash. |
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> You can change root's shell in /etc/passwd to sh and bash should run in sh |
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> mode. Or you can append init=/bin/sh to the grub boot line and try that. You |
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> will of course have to run all the init scripts yourself as init will not run |
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> when you do this. And you can't reboot either - when you exit the shell in |
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> this mode you'll get a panic |
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Thanks for the information. |
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allan |
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