Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (516 mails)

[Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 05 February 2011 22:25:07 Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2011/02/05 21:44 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman composed:
> > After the<space>  3 to get into text mode, the system returned to the
> > chameleon screen, moved the progress gauge a bit, and froze for about
> > five
>
> Get 'quiet' off the line where you type the 3 and change
>  'splash=silent' to 'splash=verbose' and you'll boot without the
>  graphics, instead getting all available boot messages, which will
>  scroll by faster than they can be read.
>
> If you want it like that always, make those changes in
>  /boot/grub/menu.lst and /etc/sysconfig/bootloader on the
>  "DEFAULT_APPEND=" line.

I have made the changes in the two files (replaced 'silent' with 'verbose' 
and deleted 'quiet'), and rebooted to runlevel 3. At the bottom of display 
is exactly the same report as before, including 0 errors, but now only 1 
skipped probe.

But further up there is a report of:

-----
Error while executing:
   Command 'ip route replace to 192.168.1.1/24 via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0' 
returned: RTNETLINKS answers: Invalid argument
   Configuration line: 192.168.1.1  192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 eth0
      eth0
-----
which looks like it fixed an error. I'm not sure what the error was, 
because I was able to access websites through this installation.        

> > Starting Firewall Initialization (phase 2 of 2)
> > Master Resource Control: runlevel 3 has been<--sic
> > Failed services in runlevel 3:
> > Skipped services in runlevel 3:
> >
> > Welcome to openSUSE 11.3 "Teal" - Kernel 2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop (tty1).
> > poblano2 login: WARNING: Number of errors: 0, skipped probes:57
> > -----
> >
> > Does that last line modify your suggested procedure?
>
> no
>
> > I am now logged into tty1; I will search how to switch to another
> > tty, but if you want to give a hint, that would be helpful.

Now I need to turn in, because it is late enough that  mistakes are 
virtually unavoidable. I will take up the suggested procedure tomorrow, 
after I do my weekly grocery run. 

> Remember, Linux by default is multi-user. This sequence is switching
>  from one "user" to another, even though you're using the same keyboard
>  and display.
>
> Ctrl-Alt-F4
> Ctrl-Alt-F3
> Ctrl-Alt-F2
> Ctrl-Alt-F5
> Ctrl-Alt-F6

Ach! I knew that, and it slipped my mind.

> Alt-F7 gets you back to X if X is running
>
> Ctrl- is only _necessary_ if you want to get to a tty from X, not to
>  switch from one tty to another.
>
> By logging in on multiple ttys at once you have the same effect as
>  multiple windows in X, such as a man page in one, a cmdline running
>  zypper in another, a text editor in another, tailing /var/log/messages
>  in another, top in another, the swiss army knife (MC) in another, etc.

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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