init 3 (from init 5) just hangs?

[Eric Waguespack]

this is interesting, I removed the "vga=791" from my grub.conf, and it
no longer hangs when I go to init 3...

On 10/24/05, Eric Waguespack <ewaguespack at gmail.com> 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 <bkline_ng at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > --- Eric Waguespack <ewaguespack at gmail.com> 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.
> >
> >
> >
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