weirdness going from runlevel 5 to 3

[Christopher Beland]

On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 06:40 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   a little more testing suggests that this is a really intermittent
> issue.  a few minutes ago, bouncing between "init 3" and "init 5" was
> working fine, but trying "init 1" left me in my GNOME desktop, albeit
> with *some* services (including wireless) having been shut down.

Is one of the services hanging in the middle of being shut down?

-B.