There are only six virtual terminals enabled by default (1-6 funnily enough) now if you issue the "/sbin/init 3" command from inside an X window then it will drop down to the terminal from which it started (7) but of course there is no 'mingetty' spawned for that device and you can't do anything. You need to switch to one of the others.
Console input will only work on VT 1-6. You can of course change that though by altering the 'inittab' but be careful, and the X device moves from 7 to 8 and so on if you do it.
Matt, are you still seeing a 'hang' when using virtual terminal 1-6 ?
On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 18:21, Igor Antonacci wrote:
--- Matt <helios82@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Today I tried to switch to run level 3 via > `/sbin/init 3` but it never > completed. It got so far as loading anacron and then > hanged. syslogd > reported no error messages; the last entry states > that anacron started Hi, I've the same problem...when I switch to runlevel 3 it hangs. A workaround is switching into another console (Ctrl-Alt-F1...F4) leaving the console no. 7 . What kernel do you have ? The one I have is 2.4.22.2115. Thanks, Igor. ______________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: 6MB di spazio gratuito, 30MB per i tuoi allegati, l'antivirus, il filtro Anti-spam http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mail.yahoo.com/
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