Thread: Bunch of broken stuff?

hello all!

new ubuntu , have several questions regarding everyday usage.

1) follows hereupon command , associative responsa received when attempting prepare system execution of "zerofree" while in single user mode:

# mount -n -o remount,ro -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /

towit met response:

mount: / busy

ideas why did not work?


2) every unix since "the beginning of time" has been able move form runlevel 3 (full multi-user tui) runlevel 5 (full multi-user gui), , vice versa (using "init" or "telinit" commands).

booted single user mode ubuntu 9.10, , told "resume booting". when did ended in tui (runlevel 3) mode. while thought strange (figuring resuming boot resume boot if had not gone single user mode, , expected end in runlevel 5 full gui), further shocked see when attempted both "init 5" , "telinit 5", seemed (according runlevel command) have raised system runlevel 5, did not bring gui, broken?

notable running ubuntu 9.10 64-bit, , have tried under both virtualbox , vmware 3.0 softwares.


thanks,

stuart

posted stuartbh

# mount -n -o remount,ro -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /

towit met response:

mount: / busy

ideas why did not work?

it says right there: because file system busy. there open files, i'd guess. lsof or fuser tell you.

posted stuartbh

... further shocked see when attempted both "init 5" , "telinit 5", seemed (according runlevel command) have raised system runlevel 5, did not bring gui, broken?

ubuntu 9.10 doesn't use sysv-init anymore. try

code:

# service gdm start

or

code:

# service kdm start

if you're running kubuntu.

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