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?