Fedora Users — Re: F9: Telinit 5 and make it stick

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 18:17 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote:
> 2008/5/20 Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > Again: not. All that line does is to set the default runlevel to 5,
> > which is what he wants, so changing that isn't going to solve his
> > problem. The issue is what's actually happening at level 5, and that's
> > no longer specified in the /etc/inittab file but in the scripts
> > in /etc/event.d.
>
> If he has that line in /etc/inittab and it's not working then he may
> have a runlevel set on the kernel command line (but I asssumed he'd
> know about that already). Otherwise, the issue he described (the
> runlevel not "sticking") should be solved by putting it in
> /etc/inittab (since upstart was made to read that again shortly prior
> to the release by Bill Nottingham, IIRC).

The only place /etc/inittab is read (as far as I can see) is
in /etc/event.d/rcS, and that is only to set the runlevel to what
initdefault says. In other words, you can't use it directly to start
arbitrary processes like you could before.

In fact it even says so at the top of the file:

# inittab is only used by upstart for the default runlevel.
#
# ADDING OTHER CONFIGURATION HERE WILL HAVE NO EFFECT ON YOUR SYSTEM.

In any case, I think we're both now in the realm of speculation as to
what the OP is actually seeing.

poc

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I solved it.
The problem was a missing /etc/X11/prefdm

I had deleted it thinking that it was part of "X Windows System" group, but it is not, it is provided on "initscripts" (go figure)

I wanted to do a clean X reinstallation and I had erased the whole /etc/X11 subdirectory. It's working fine now,

Thanks all!!!!

JP

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