Top post here on purpose. Hey g. Would you, could you, do me, and others, a favor? Please? Either do as you are supposed to do when using GnuPG to sign your emails and *publish' your *public key* to a keyserver so that my system, and others systems, do not have to look for your *public key*, and fail, with every one of your posts to this list. Your *public key* is supposed to be *public*. That's why it is named *public key*. It is your *private key* that you keep *private*. Or just stop signing the darn posts. Please g. One or the other. On 7/10/2009 1:10 PM, g wrote: > Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > >> My problem is that if I run "/sbin/telinit 1" from a terminal while in >> runlevel 5, the normal messages appear and everything LOOKS fine, but then I >> am dumped to a plain black screen with no apparent way of escape. I actually >> have to reboot to get out of it... > > i do not believe that you can be in runlevel 5 and switch to runlevel 1 > while in 'x' from a terminal. they are 2 entirely different 'animals'. > > note. if you do get to runlevel 1 from 'x', you will see a command line > prompt and you can do what ever. to return to runlevel 5, enter 'init 5' > to return to 'x'. > > if you want runlevel 1, you need to boot to runlevel 1 from start. > > you do this when you see boot prompt and press <tab>. you will be shown > boot selections. move highlight to boot that you want. [if you have multi > boots]. press <e> to edit, move highlight to line that show something like; > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.* ro root=/dev/hda1 resume=/dev/hda2 acpi=force > > press <e> again and cursor will be at end of line. enter a <space> and <1>, > then press <enter>, then <b> to boot. > > this is from memory, as i always boot runlevel 3. exact instructions will > be shown at bottom of boot selections. > > i have my system 'inittab' set to 'id:3:initdefault:', which you should do > if you wish to start booting runlevel 1 or 3. if you make change, change > the number '5' to '3'. do not comment out line and write a new line. doing > so will cause problems. > > when you boot runlevel 3 and log in, you can start 'x' with 'startx'. when > you close 'x', you return to runlevel 3. > > when you want to use runlevel 1, simply type 'init 1' at command line and > you will drop to runlevel 1. you do not have to use "/sbin/telinit 1" > > hth. > > -- David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines