Fedora 11: Problem switching to single user mode (runlevel 1)
Steven P. Ulrick
lists-fedora at afolkey2.net
Fri Jul 10 23:25:39 UTC 2009
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 17:10:57 +0000,
> g <geleem at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> >
> > if you want runlevel 1, you need to boot to runlevel 1 from start.
>
> You can use the telinit command to switch run levels. Doing this from
> an X session is going to drop your session, so you want to be OK with
> that before doing it.
Hello
I understand all of that. On Fedora 8, if I would be in runlevel 5, and
wanted to do the closest thing I could short of rebooting, I would, as root,
run "/sbin/telinit 1" I would eventually come to a command prompt. I would
then do "/sbin/telinit 5" and return to X. But, my question still has not
been covered. For convenience sake, I will quote it here:
>My problem is that if I run "/sbin/telinit 1" from a terminal while in
>runlevel 5, the normal messages appear and everything LOOKS fine, but then I
> am dumped to a plain black screen with no apparent way of escape. I
> actually have to reboot to get out of it...
Like the question says, instead of ending up at a command prompt, I am dumped
to a plain black screen with no apparent way to get out. The only way to get
out of it is to hit the reset button on my computer and reboot. If I phrased
all of that clearly, you probably see the difference (for me anyway) between
running "/sbin/telinit 1" on Fedora 8 and Fedora 11.
Steven P. Ulrick
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