On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 05:02:04PM -0500, Eric Waguespack wrote: > When I type "init 3" from runlevel 5 it just hangs... It kills the > services and never gives me a prompt back... I am also unable to > switch to other consoles (via control-alt-f1, etc) > > any ideas? is this just a bug? > > I checked my /etc/inittab, and mingetty is setup to run in runlevels 2-5. The first part is known bug. What happens assuming you started in terminal 1 that when you type init 3 the system changes to another terminal window. One person suggested it is terminal 8. But usually you can get back in sync by typing ctrl-alt-f2 and then ctrl-alt-f1 again. Often just typing ctl-alt-f1 again works. You can try ctl-alt-f8. If none of that works then you have a real other problem. I am not sure I have been of much help. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
