Switching from run level 5 to 3 hangs

[David Balazic]

> From: 	Fritz Whittington[SMTP:f.whittington at att.net]
> 
> On or about 2004-01-13 03:53, David Balazic whipped out a trusty #2 
> pencil and scribbled:
> 
> >  
> >
> >>----------
> >>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
> >>
> >>On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 16:40, Naoki wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>This may sound a little funny but did you press the return key a
> >>>couple of times?
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>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. 
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >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.
> >
> >  
> >
> >>-- 
> >>Matt 
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> 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 
> 
Are you sure ?
There is a root shell on VT1 without you actually logging in there ( by
entering the
"root" username and the corresponding password ) ?
I don't believe you ;-)
Maybe you should tell exactly what you did before entering "telinit 3".
>From boot on.

> <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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