On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 10:05:26 +0100, Chris Linton-Ford <chris.lintonford@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? The way you did it, didn't really do a reboot. Can you tell us what you are really trying to do? Are you trying to just stop the X server and don't care about other differences between level 3 and 5? Is this something you want to continue accross the next reboot?
