initdefault has no effect
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue Apr 7 02:25:31 UTC 2009
Ed Greshko wrote:
> Hummm.... Bad news....
>
> I had to test this and have in the intttab file....
>
> # 5 - X11
> # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
> #
> ; id:5:initdefault:
> id:3:initdefault:
>
> And the system still comes up in run level 5.
There is probably no comment sign anymore.
Upstart just rapidly scans /etc/inittab for the default runlevel and ignores
everything else. The only reason the file is still /etc/inittab is for
backwards compatibility. So it doesn't use a complete inittab parser, it
probably just scans for the first occurrence of id:?:initdefault,
completely ignoring any comment signs.
Just don't leave commented lines around.
Kevin Kofler
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