On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 22:26 -0500, Eric Waguespack wrote:
> this is interesting, I removed the "vga=791" from my grub.conf, and it
> no longer hangs when I go to init 3...
I have the same problem, but I don't have a vga-791. Hitting <CR> does
not bring up the prompt as it used to. I'm sure I just have to switch
displays or something, but I couldn't remember the way to do that.
Dan
>
> On 10/24/05, Eric Waguespack < ewaguespack@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > well that's not the case here... no key or key combination, (including
> > enter / control alt f[1-8]) have any effect.
> >
> > On 10/24/05, Bob Kline < bkline_ng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > --- Eric Waguespack <ewaguespack@xxxxxxxxx> 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 remember thinking that init 3 had hung, and then I
> > > realized that the prompt had been displayed before the
> > > output from the background process switching levels.
> > > As soon as I hit the enter key I got another prompt,
> > > confirming that it wasn't hung after all.
> > >
What version of xorg-x11 do you have installed? I have a similar problem after I upgraded the xorg-x11 packages to the 6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2 release. Both GDM and KDM would crash upon entering runlevel 5. SSH worked but none of the consoles. I had to downgrade all the packages to 6.8.2-37.FC4.45 to get X running again.
