Running X in runlevel 3

[David G. Miller]

Ian Chapman <packages at amiga-hardware.com> wrote:

> David G. Miller wrote:
>> > I strongly recommend the "start in run level 3" approach to anyone 
>> > having trouble getting their video setup configured.  That way 
>> > ctrl-alt-backspace can kill the X session if the need arises and you 
>> > don't end up with X cycling until you reboot.
>>     
>
> At least since about FC2 (maybe FC4) this shouldn't generally happen as 
> gdm will detect X respawning too fast and popup a console message 
> warning that X couldn't be started. It tries something like 5 or 6 times 
> before giving up. You are then free to use any of the VTs to fix the issue.
I got in the habit back around Red Hat 5.0 and just never got out of it 
until now.  Of course, the habit got reinforced when I played around 
with some of the early proprietary drivers and such.  I also did a lot 
of teaching myself TCP/IP networking at one point and it was kind of 
nice to be able to hop on the system without waiting for X to start 
after a reboot.

Cheers,
Dave

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