Fedora 11: Problem switching to single user mode (runlevel 1)

[Rick Stevens]

Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
>> 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.

X now runs off VT1, I think, whereas it used to be VT7.  "telinit 1"
would drop you to VT1, where the X had been before.  Have you tried
"ALT-F2" (or "CTRL-ALT-F2") while in the black screen to get to a
console?
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