> From: Fritz Whittington[SMTP:f.whittington@xxxxxxx] > > On or about 2004-01-13 03:53, David Balazic whipped out a trusty #2 > pencil and scribbled: > > > > > > >>---------- > >>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 a > >>>couple of times? > >>> > >>> > >>LOL. Yes I tried that to no avail. The last screen I see is a blank one > >>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. > > > > > > > >>-- > >>Matt > >> > >> > >> > 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 > Are you sure ? There is a root shell on VT1 without you actually logging in there ( by entering the "root" username and the corresponding password ) ? I don't believe you ;-) Maybe you should tell exactly what you did before entering "telinit 3". >From boot on. > <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. > > 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. > > -- > Fritz Whittington > It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give > validity to his convictions in political affairs. (Albert Einstein, > 'Treasury for the Free World,' 1946) > >
