interesting lockup with Slackware current

Stephen Clower steve at steve-audio.net
Mon May 31 21:21:56 EDT 2004


Hi Adam and Doug,
  Thanks a lot for the info. I ended up installing the latest Slackware 9.1 packages, including sendmail. Slack 9.1 is a little dated, but it's stable. I think I'll just wait for the next stable release of the OS instead of breaking anything else.
Regards
Steve

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On 5/31/2004 at 12:23 PM Adam Myrow wrote:

>You have to add the word "single" to the boot prompt to boot in
>single-user mode.  I.E. assuming your boot entry in Lilo is called Linux,
>you would type "Linux single" at the boot prompt.  BTW, when you say
>"current" do you mean you downloaded from the Slackware-current directory?
>If so, you should be aware that the slack-ware-current directory is
>essentially the beta test directory for what will eventually be the newest
>version of Slackware.  The latest stable version is 9.1.  They really
>ought to rename the current directory to "testing" or something similar.
>Anyway, I can't imagine what is causing the lock-up.
>
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