Where is runlevel 5?

[Joachim Backes]

On 08/26/2010 07:17 AM, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 08:02:45PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 21:18 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
>>>
>>> http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/wisdom/braindump/oss-happens.html
>>>
>>> Another example of the Vogon effect :-).
>>
>> No, not really. It's not the Vogon effect. This is a very public,
>> very open project; the use of systemd has been discussed
>> extensively on this list, and on -test list, and is listed in the
>> Alpha release notes - it's the very first item under 'what's new'
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_14_Alpha_release_notes#Better_System_and_Session_Management
>> - and the Alpha release announcement -
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_Alpha_release_announcement -
>> again it's the first item.
> 
> OK, let's try this "first item" in its entirety.
> 
>   Fedora 14 introduces systemd, a smarter, more efficient way of
>   starting up and managing background daemons and services. It is
>   a drop-in replacement for sysvinit and upstart, maintaining
>   compatibility with SysV and LSB init scripts.
> 
> Ahem!  So far AFAICT "smarter, more efficient" are quite far from
> being demonstrated,  "drop-in" is debatable and "maintaining
> compatibility" in the curent state it certainly is not. So where
> this leaves us?  Searching bugzilla for systemd and reading through
> search results can be an enlightening experience.
> 
> One way around these issues would be to make sure that /sbin/upstart
> is installed and booting with 'init=/sbin/upstart' in kernel
> parameters.  Of course then you are not testing systemd.  OTOH
> adding '5' there may just work (maybe).
> 
>     Michal

Hi Michal,

I made the experience that I can add in F14 the runlevel in the GRUB
boot line, so I can boot into rl 5 or 3 without problem. Without any
change in /etc/inittab.

Kind regards

-- 
Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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