Switching from run level 5 to 3 hangs

[David Balazic]

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> From: 	Matt[SMTP:helios82 at optushome.com.au]
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> Sent: 	13. januar 2004 8:04
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> Subject: 	Re: Switching from run level 5 to 3 hangs
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> On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 16:40, Naoki wrote:
> > This may sound a little funny but did you press the return key a
> > couple of times?
> 
> LOL. Yes I tried that to no avail. The last screen I see is a blank one
> which has two lines at the top:
> "INIT: Switching to runlevel: 3"
> "INIT: Sending all processes the TERM signal"
> And then nada, zilch, nothing... I have to either hard reboot or switch
> to a VT and gracefully reboot. 
> 
What exactly is the right behavior in you opinion ?
In runlevel 3 there is nothing running on VT7 (except some system messages
sometimes appear),
you MUST switch to VT1 ( or any VT between 1 and 6 ) and work there. That is
what runlevel 3 means.

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