init 3 problem revisited.

[Robbie Dude]

Thank god other people are having a prob with init3 I thought it just might 
have been me.

Anyways, 
Hello everyone my name is Rob and I'm new to the news group and fairly new 
too linux. I was running FC3 but now I'm running FC4. 

I have an Nvidia card and this is the whole reason I was trying the init3 
thing. Guess I'll have to try it again in FC4.

Thanks for all your responces.
Rob

On 8/31/05, Robert Locke <lists at ralii.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 18:39 -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> > People's answers to me have set me on the right track and here is what
> > I have observed now. I just can't understand that no one else has
> > noticed this glitch.
> >
> > I made the shifting to init 3 in a terminal more mysterious than it
> > really is. crl-alt-f1 takes you into a terminal. Login as root and
> > run init 3. The machine seems to be hung but typing ctl-alt-f2 takes
> > you into another terminal window where of course you are not logged
> > on. Then typing ctrl-alt-f1 again will take you back to the first
> > terminal where you are logged on and in into level 3.
> >
> > So as people have suggested the going into init level 3 is occurring
> > but what is not occurring is the last step in a problem we used to
> > have on previous fedoras where going into init 3 would stop at the
> > anacron stop step. To get a prompt you would have to hit return.
> > Now the return is not accepted and the machine seems to be hung.
> >
> > Maybe a bugzilla is needed.
> 
> This may in fact be bugzillable (now there is a new word....).
> 
> But the original issue of needing to hit return is simply that the
> "prompt" is overwritten by the "console" messages generated when
> services are starting and stopping. So your hitting return displays a
> new prompt... The challenge, of course, being that the services are
> outside the running shell process so the shell is unaware of needing to
> redisplay its prompt.
> 
> Now, my other thought on the new problem is this....
> 
> 1) You are on tty1 (a text based virtual console), logged in as root,
> typing in init 3. If you are in a "window" inside of the GUI/X, then
> the blank screen is entirely appropriate - you are still on tty7 but
> there is no running process attached to it to display something to you.
> 2) The screen goes blank? Or do you still see the init 3 command that
> you typed in? If it is truly going blank, I think you may again be
> switched to tty7 without you pressing the keys. Perhaps the death of X
> causes the tty switch much like the start of prefdm/X causes us to
> switch to tty7 when we boot. If this is the case, I am not sure if this
> is a bug or perhaps just a feature.... <big grin>
> 
> --Rob
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