From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051206 Fedora/1.5-0.tmus.1 Firefox/1.5 Description of problem: After a recent update to SysVinit-2.86-1, kernel command line arguments single, s S and 1 does not make the system boot into single user mode. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): SysVinit-2.86-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. try the traditional single user mode flags on the kernel cmdline 2. watch as the system flies into runlevel 5 Actual Results: runlevel 5 Expected Results: single user mode Additional info: I tried to downgrade to FC4 version (SysVinit-2.85-39) and the flags now successfully make the system boot into single user mode. At this point I don't know whether this is caused by an actual SysVinit bug, a script compability issue or something else. I did try to boot with "selinux=0 s" and that didn't help much - still booted straight through to runlevel 5, so i doubt it's directly related to SElinux.
Fixed in -2, it was a new sysvinit bug in 2.86.
wow - bug squashed in < 15 mins, that's gotta be some kind of record :)
To be honest, I read about it on the list beforehand, and was already working on it. :)
I knida knew, but "read ahead" is still considered fair play, so it doesn't impact resolve time :)
Package name is now sysvinit in Fedora.