Strange init 3 behavior,
Bob Chiodini
rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Mon Aug 29 22:15:54 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 16:31 -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> Has any one seen this behavior on FC4 systems, and know what to do about
> it?
>
> You go into a text terminal and wan to change to
> init level 3, so you execute the command init 3. The machine hangs. (more about
> this later)
>
> So just to try something you enter init 1 instead of init 3. The machine
> goes to init level 1. Aha you say. I know what to do and you type init 3
> The machine not to be bested by a mere user changes to init
> level 5.
>
> A kind of work around>
>
> If you go into a terminal and you type init 3 and it
> hangs in various places depending on how long you wait and whether you hit
> return. Now you hit ctrl-alt-f7 the screen goes black. You then hit
> ctl-alt-f1 and eureka you are in init level 3. Is that obscure enough a
> procedure for you. I tried this on three machines and it worked
> every time.
>
> What is happening here? Does any one know?
>
>
> --
>
> =======================================================================
> I hope you're not pretending to be evil while secretly being good.
> That would be dishonest.
> -------------------------------------------
> Aaron Konstam
> Computer Science
> Trinity University
> telephone: (210)-999-7484
>
Aaron,
Does hitting return in the virtual terminal return a prompt after you
enter runlevel 3?
I have seen what you describe on FC3. I think the prompt after typing
init 3 is getting lost. I just reproduced it on an x86_64 machine and I
see on an i386 machine as well. Maybe a bug report is in order.
Bob...
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