Switching from run level 5 to 3 hangs

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2004-01-13 03:53, David Balazic whipped out a trusty #2 
pencil and scribbled:

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>>From: 	Matt[SMTP:helios82 at optushome.com.au]
>>Reply To: 	fedora-list at redhat.com
>>Sent: 	13. januar 2004 8:04
>>To: 	fedora-list
>>Subject: 	Re: Switching from run level 5 to 3 hangs
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>>On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 16:40, Naoki wrote:
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>>>This may sound a little funny but did you press the return key a
>>>couple of times?
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>>LOL. Yes I tried that to no avail. The last screen I see is a blank one
>>which has two lines at the top:
>>"INIT: Switching to runlevel: 3"
>>"INIT: Sending all processes the TERM signal"
>>And then nada, zilch, nothing... I have to either hard reboot or switch
>>to a VT and gracefully reboot. 
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>What exactly is the right behavior in you opinion ?
>In runlevel 3 there is nothing running on VT7 (except some system messages
>sometimes appear),
>you MUST switch to VT1 ( or any VT between 1 and 6 ) and work there. That is
>what runlevel 3 means.
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>>-- 
>>Matt 
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Well, I was amazed to read that it wasn't working the way it always has 
for me since RH 7.  I just tried it again on FC1, using both KDE and 
Gnome.  From a console window (Konsole on KDE or GnomeTerminal on Gnome) 
as root issue "telinit 3".  The display switches to a black screen with 
the regular MS-DOS style of 25x80 characters, and all the 
shutdown/startup messages go by.  The last of these is "anacron".  Here, 
Gnome and KDE differ:  Gnome leaves you logged in as root, with a 
prompt.  Doing a who shows you are on tty1.  In fact, hitting 
<alt><ctl>F2 gets you to a login prompt on tty2, and hitting 
<alt><ctl>F1 indeed gets you back to your root prompt.  Under KDE, you 
have to hit <return> and get a login prompt, have to login, but you 
*are* on tty1.  In either case, when you issue the "telinit 5" command 
and go back to the X terminal (automatically switched, you don't have to 
hit <alt><ctl>F7) and then hit <alt><ctl>F1 you can see the old progress 
messages still on the screen  above your new login prompt.

Now, I think that's the way it was *intended* to work, because it does 
pretty much what you would expect/need it to do, all automatically.  If 
it doesn't work that way on your installation of FC1, I would submit 
that something is mis-configured or corrupted. 

-- 
Fritz Whittington
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs. (Albert Einstein, 'Treasury for the Free World,' 1946)

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