[TriLUG] Maintenance of a systemd machine

[Ron Kelley via TriLUG]

From what I have seen, recovery mode is not single-user mode.  Recovery mode (at least on CentOS) starts a number of daemons including mdadm which causes other issues.

Booting the VM using “init=/bin/sh” should solve your problem.


-Ron


On Jan 7, 2017, at 3:54 PM, Brian McCullough via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

Thank you for the thoughts so far.

"Recovery Mode" has a "single" parameter on the boot command line, and
claims to be running in Single User mode, but everything is mounted and
running.  

I can't umount /var, for instance, because rsyslog is running.


This is a machine in California, so the idea of a bootable CD isn't
really practical.  B-)

Hmmmm.  Actually, that might work, because I can change the drive
configuration in the VM definition and boot from a virtual live CD.

That might be the best answer.



Thank you,
Brian

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