Tonight's rawhide REALLY wants to boot into level 5

Will Woods wwoods at redhat.com
Thu Mar 27 16:33:27 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 14:32 +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Scott Robbins wrote:
> >> I just ran yum update (I always use yum or smart in text mode) to update
> >> rawhide.
> >>
> >> /etc/inittab is set to level 3 as default.
> >> Upon reboot, to my amusement, it booted into runlevel 5.  I said to
> >> myself, "Self, it probably did something to /etc/inittab."
> >> However, inittab was still set to runlevel 3.  I figured that maybe
> >> there was some other obvious place where it was starting gdm, but I
> >> haven't been able to find it.
> >
> > /etc/inittab is obsolete in upstart
> 
> Then it should probably be saved as inittab.rpmsave by the upstart package 
> to reduce possible confusion.

Except that it actually *is* used by upstart, in a way - it reads the
'id:' line to figure out the default runlevel. But as Bill said, this
may change before release.

-w
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