Quoting Bret Busby (bret.bu...@gmail.com): > The telinit s command, whilst taking the computer to single user mode, > unfortunately did not turn off the GUI, so I still got the same error.
It would appear that there's some sort of disagreement over terminology here. X will not be running while in single user mode (by which we mean a single login as root. It'll still be installed and configured to run when you're not in single user mode. But let's just make things simple. Stop worrying about getting into single user mode from the machine's normal running configuration. Just reboot. Select single user mode from the grub menu. That's the answer to your Subject line. Now run your script, preferably after starting "script" so you capture the output. If you have the same problem, viz "You appear to be running xserver. Exit xserver and try again", then post that problem under an appropriate subject line and you might start to make progress in the actual problem area. Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150608142608.GA6733@alum
