When I try to drop from runlevel 5 to 3 in FC5 by doing a 'sudo init 3', the X server quits but the init process gets stuck after the following: INIT: Switching to runlevel: 3 INIT: Sending all processes the TERM signal Starting readahead_early: Starting background readahead: [ OK ] [ OK ] Starting irqbalance: [ OK ] Is there any way to drop to runlevel 3 without rebooting? Cheers, Chris L-F -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan Sent: 16 April 2006 07:42 To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Can anyone explain the use of init3 Javier Perez wrote: > Init 3 usually starts linux in a non-graphical environment > > It is very useful to troubleshoot X problems. > > Javier > > > On 4/16/06, *sujit sugathan* <sujitsugathan2002@xxxxxxxxx > <mailto:sujitsugathan2002@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > > Hi everyone > I've this question nagging me for sometime.Can anyone explain to > me how and why the command init3 is used. > thanks > -- > sujit > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > -- > ------------------------------ > /\_/\ > |O O| pepebuho@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:pepebuho@xxxxxxxxxxx> > ~~~~ Javier Perez > ~~~~ While the night runs > ~~~~ toward the day... > m m Pepebuho watches > from his high perch. This is to use runlevel 3. There are five main runlevels used: Runlevel 0: Shuts down. Not very useful to boot into. Runlevel 1: Single-user mode, you are automatically root user (hence why if someone has physical access to a computer and can edit the boot arguments, they can change the root password) Runlevel 3: Text multi-user mode Runlevel 5: Graphical multi-user mode; default, and most people use this. Runlevel 6: Restarts. Again, not very useful to boot into. -Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
