rawhide report: 20051221 changes - X server removed

[Thomas M Steenholdt]

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