init 1 in GNOME

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 22:38:28 -0500, Jeff wrote:

> > Up-to-date Fedora 14 Beta (Oct 1st):
> > 
> > "init 1" (or also "init 3") run from within a GNOME session here
> > doesn't terminate X.
> > 
> > Is it just my installation or reproducible?
> > 
> > $ rpm -qf /sbin/init
> > upstart-sysvinit-0.6.5-9.fc14.i686
> 
> I have the same issue.  I suspected the graphics driver (radeon).  For
> me booting with the kernel parameter nohz=off seems to resolve the issue
> (and improves the performance of Xorg).

nohz=off didn't change anything for me.

I've filed a bug about "upstart" even if that may be the wrong
component: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/640925