> Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > 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. > > op stated; > > >> 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... > > to me, 'plain black screen' indicates nothing, nada, no command prompt. That is exactly what I meant. > if op had stated that he had a command line, i would have told him to issue > 'init 5' to return to 'x'. Which is exactly what I have always done as long as I have been switching from runlevel 5 to runlevel 1 by using the telinit command. > as i stated, i boot level 3, i do not boot level 5, therefore i have never > had need to change from level 5 down to level 1, so i am not aware of it > being accessible that way. all tho i would think that it would be. Definitely is accessible that way. In fact, I have been doing it that way at LEAST since Fedora 8. Probably a lot longer than that. 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
