In light of all the excitement over a new window manager possibility, I decided I wanted to peek a bit deeper under the covers.

So, brilliant me, I ssh'd in and started looking at things in the etc/rc* dirs. Note to self: do NOT run "rc0.d/K23x-server.sh stop". The whole thing shut down and rebooted.

Now, luckily for me I had moved to the bootmenu option months ago, so this was my part2 install I believe I just borked. Several reboots, I get the sound, the picture, and I get white and a reboot cycle. I've now booted into the older image on the device itself so I can tar up my user folder and xfer it back to another machine for safe keeping.

Any thoughts on what I possibly hosed with that innocuous little stop command? Something obviously went belly up if it's not going to stop the fun reboot cycle.

those S* and K* scripts are numbered so that they can be performed in sequence. when you go up the init levels, the S* scripts are run from 0-999. when you go down the init levels the K* scripts are run from 999-0.

chances are that you stopped something that caused other processes to fail, and that caused the crash and reboots, not the script you ran.