Well, I was amazed to read that it wasn't working the way it always has for me since RH 7. I just tried it again on FC1, using both KDE and Gnome. From a console window (Konsole on KDE or GnomeTerminal on Gnome) as root issue "telinit 3". The display switches to a black screen with the regular MS-DOS style of 25x80 characters, and all the shutdown/startup messages go by. The last of these is "anacron". Here, Gnome and KDE differ: Gnome leaves you logged in as root, with a prompt. Doing a who shows you are on tty1. In fact, hitting <alt><ctl>F2 gets you to a login prompt on tty2, and hitting <alt><ctl>F1 indeed gets you back to your root prompt. Under KDE, you have to hit <return> and get a login prompt, have to login, but you *are* on tty1. In either case, when you issue the "telinit 5" command and go back to the X terminal (automatically switched, you don't have to hit <alt><ctl>F7) and then hit <alt><ctl>F1 you can see the old progress messages still on the screen above your new login prompt.
---------- From: Matt[SMTP:helios82@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Reply To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: 13. januar 2004 8:04 To: fedora-list Subject: Re: Switching from run level 5 to 3 hangs
On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 16:40, Naoki wrote:
This may sound a little funny but did you press the return key aLOL. Yes I tried that to no avail. The last screen I see is a blank one
couple of times?
which has two lines at the top:
"INIT: Switching to runlevel: 3"
"INIT: Sending all processes the TERM signal"
And then nada, zilch, nothing... I have to either hard reboot or switch
to a VT and gracefully reboot.
What exactly is the right behavior in you opinion ? In runlevel 3 there is nothing running on VT7 (except some system messages sometimes appear), you MUST switch to VT1 ( or any VT between 1 and 6 ) and work there. That is what runlevel 3 means.
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Matt
Now, I think that's the way it was *intended* to work, because it does pretty much what you would expect/need it to do, all automatically. If it doesn't work that way on your installation of FC1, I would submit that something is mis-configured or corrupted.
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