[Fwd: fedora-test-list Digest, Vol 62, Issue 66]

[Allen Kistler]

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> 
> Getting to runlevel 3, either with init 3 from runlevel 5
> (if it doesn't crash) or by editing /etc/inittab, and then
> giving init 5, causes at least two things to break.
> 
> 1.  The motherboard beeps on most keystrokes, but the keystrokes register.
> 
> 2.  Add software says the user does not have permission to do stuff
> instead of asking for a password.
> 
> 3.  The sound device is not accessible by a regular user.

This is probably the same bug in the thread "weirdness going from 
runlevel 5 to 3."

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495326

Backing out plymouth appears to solve the problem for me.