On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 16:31 -0500, akonstam(a)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?
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Aaron Konstam
Computer Science
Trinity University
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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...