> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 17:10:57 +0000, > g <geleem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > if you want runlevel 1, you need to boot to runlevel 1 from start. > > You can use the telinit command to switch run levels. Doing this from > an X session is going to drop your session, so you want to be OK with > that before doing it. Hello I understand all of that. On Fedora 8, if I would be in runlevel 5, and wanted to do the closest thing I could short of rebooting, I would, as root, run "/sbin/telinit 1" I would eventually come to a command prompt. I would then do "/sbin/telinit 5" and return to X. But, my question still has not been covered. For convenience sake, I will quote it here: >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... Like the question says, instead of ending up at a command prompt, I am dumped to a plain black screen with no apparent way to get out. The only way to get out of it is to hit the reset button on my computer and reboot. If I phrased all of that clearly, you probably see the difference (for me anyway) between running "/sbin/telinit 1" on Fedora 8 and Fedora 11. Steven P. Ulrick -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
