Where is runlevel 5?

Chris Lumens clumens at redhat.com
Thu Aug 26 14:14:59 UTC 2010


> > I have edited /etc/inittab to change :3: to :5: in the
> > one line in there, but that didn't change anything.
> > (Apparently it picked runlevel 3 as the default because
> > X wouldn't work in the installer and I had to use VNC).
> >
> 
> That wont work inittab is slowly being deprecated add 1, 3 or 5 to 
> kernel command line during start or in grub.conf directly instead.
> 
> So it seems you have encountered two bugs one in Anaconda and another in 
> KDM

The only possible anaconda bug here is that X "doesn't work", but we
don't have enough data to go on to know whether that's anaconda's fault
or X's fault or what.

The VNC -> runlevel 3 implication is working as designed.

- Chris


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