Can anyone explain the use of init3
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Wed Apr 19 14:36:43 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 10:05 +0100, Chris Linton-Ford wrote:
> When I try to drop from runlevel 5 to 3 in FC5 by doing a 'sudo init 3', the
> X server quits but the init process gets stuck after the following:
>
> INIT: Switching to runlevel: 3
> INIT: Sending all processes the TERM signal
> Starting readahead_early: Starting background readahead: [ OK ]
>
> [ OK ]
> Starting irqbalance: [ OK
> ]
>
> Is there any way to drop to runlevel 3 without rebooting?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris L-F
>
Type: ctrl-alt-F1
log in to the terminal that appears as root.
Then run: init 3
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