On 10/24/05, Dan Hensley <<a href="mailto:dan@dshensley.com">dan@dshensley.com</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 22:26 -0500, Eric Waguespack wrote: > this is interesting, I removed the "vga=791" from my grub.conf, and it > no longer hangs when I go to init 3... I have the same problem, but I don't have a vga-791. Hitting <CR> does not bring up the prompt as it used to. I'm sure I just have to switch displays or something, but I couldn't remember the way to do that. Dan > > On 10/24/05, Eric Waguespack <<a href="mailto:ewaguespack@gmail.com"> ewaguespack@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > well that's not the case here... no key or key combination, (including > > enter / control alt f[1-8]) have any effect. > > > > On 10/24/05, Bob Kline < <a href="mailto:bkline_ng@yahoo.com">bkline_ng@yahoo.com</a>> wrote: > > > > > > > > > --- Eric Waguespack <<a href="mailto:ewaguespack@gmail.com">ewaguespack@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > > > > > > When I type "init 3" from runlevel 5 it just > > > > hangs... It kills the > > > > services and never gives me a prompt back... I am > > > > also unable to > > > > switch to other consoles (via control-alt-f1, etc) > > > > > > > > any ideas? is this just a bug? > > > > > > I remember thinking that init 3 had hung, and then I > > > realized that the prompt had been displayed before the > > > output from the background process switching levels. > > > As soon as I hit the enter key I got another prompt, > > > confirming that it wasn't hung after all. > > > </blockquote></div> What version of xorg-x11 do you have installed? I have a similar problem after I upgraded the xorg-x11 packages to the 6.8.2-37.FC4.49.2 release. Both GDM and KDM would crash upon entering runlevel 5. SSH worked but none of the consoles. I had to downgrade all the packages to 6.8.2-37.FC4.45 to get X running again.