rawhide report: 20051221 changes - X server removed

[Clyde E. Kunkel]

Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
> Joachim Frieben wrote:
>> Strange things are going on at Red Hat:
>>
>> - consumption of psychedelic substances by Red Hat developers
>>   exhibiting through the new bubble style artwork. ;o)
>>
>> - today's updates applied through "pup" -removed- the
>>   "xorg-x11-server-Xorg" package
>>
>> - "kernel-devel" and "kernel-doc" got updated but not the "kernel"
>>   package itself
>>
>> - kernels  2.6.14-1.1777_FC5 and 2.6.14-1.1777_FC5 do not honour
>>   the "single" boot option as previous kernels did.
>>
>> Strange days, indeed ... .
>>
>>
> 
> In an attempt to verify my initial thoughts, i installed a SysVinit 
> based on 2.85 (the FC4 version to be exact).
> 
> After that - booting with an s on the kernel command line puts me into 
> single user mode just fine.
> 
> /Thomas
> 
FWIW, I noticed that during the yum update of SysVinit the following 
occurred:
telinit: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl

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