Re: Runlevel switching

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 07:18:00AM -0800, ofeeley yahoo com wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:49:16PM -0800, ofeeley yahoo com wrote:
> > > 1. What should the behaviour of the system be if in an xterm I issue the 
> > > command:
> > > /sbin/init 1
> > 
> > As user, you'll get a warning that you don't have the permission to change
> > init-level. As root, your system will probably go to init 1 (single user
> > mode). Services will stop (but connections that are already made will still
> > be available) and you'll get the rootprompt.
> 
> That's what I thought should happen.  What in fact happens is that the 
> system just sits there.  I can open new xterms.  I can resize and 
> shade/unshade windows.  But I can not interact with the CLI in either new 
> or old xterms.  Also Ctrl-Alt-BS, Ctrl-Alt-Fx, Ctrl-Alt-DEL do nothing.  
> This is very frustrating.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Sven, thanks for the response.  At least now I know that something is 
> wrong with the machine as opposed to my understanding of what should be 
> happening.  Time to mess around with it some more!
> 
> Thanks,
> -Oisin
You will probably get better effects if you go to an alternative console by
typing <ctl><alt> 1 (or 2-6) and then login as root and do init 1.
OR type <ctl><alt><del> to reboot and then boot to level 1.
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