Can anyone explain the use of init3

[Chris Linton-Ford]

When I try to drop from runlevel 5 to 3 in FC5 by doing a 'sudo init 3', the
X server quits but the init process gets stuck after the following:

INIT: Switching to runlevel: 3
INIT: Sending all processes the TERM signal
Starting readahead_early: Starting background readahead:	[ OK ]
	
[ OK ]
Starting irqbalance:							[ OK
]

Is there any way to drop to runlevel 3 without rebooting?

Cheers,

Chris L-F

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Dan
Sent: 16 April 2006 07:42
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Can anyone explain the use of init3

Javier Perez wrote:
> Init 3 usually starts linux in a non-graphical environment
>  
> It is very useful to troubleshoot X problems.
>  
> Javier
>
>  
> On 4/16/06, *sujit sugathan* <sujitsugathan2002 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:sujitsugathan2002 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Hi everyone
>     I've this question nagging me for sometime.Can anyone explain to
>     me how and why the command init3 is used.
>     thanks
>     -- 
>     sujit
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This is to use runlevel 3. There are five main runlevels used:
Runlevel 0: Shuts down. Not very useful to boot into.
Runlevel 1: Single-user mode, you are automatically root user (hence why 
if someone has physical access to a computer and can edit the boot 
arguments, they can change the root password)
Runlevel 3: Text multi-user mode
Runlevel 5: Graphical multi-user mode; default, and most people use this.
Runlevel 6: Restarts. Again, not very useful to boot into.
-Dan

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