Anthony Messina wrote .. > also, booting into runlevel 3 then doing "startx" is not the same as > booting into runlevel 5: other services that are only configured to run > in runlevel 5 don't start that way. > > if you need to boot to runlevel 3, then switch to runlevel 5, do > "telinit 5" from the runlevel 3 command prompt. > > man telinit Why would 'telinit 3' from the KDE desktop terminal window cause my computer to hang? Should I not be doing this from within KDE?
