Re: init 5 ?
This is a problem that I had after an upgrade. The fix is really quite simple. You can either remove the '@S99xdm' link in /etc/rc2.d or you can use 'mv @S99xdm @off99xdm'. Either option works. Debian will then boot into run level 2 at the command line instead of booting into X.
HTH
Lonnie
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:46:41 +0200
Theo Bierman <theob@za.uu.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 06:52:50PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 01:30:35 +0100 Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> wrote:
> > > According to Ron Johnson:
> > > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:48:51 +0000 (UTC) Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> wrote:
> > > > > In article <[🔎] 20020116134522.A26340@za.uu.net>,
> > > > > Theo Bierman <theob@za.uu.net> wrote:
> > > > > >When starting the machine up my default init level is X and not level 3.
> > > > > >I thought perhaps it would be a setting in /etc/inittab however nothing
> > > > > >really sheds ligt there.... where should I be looking?
> > > > >
> > > > > X and runlevels don't have anything to do with eachother in Debian.
> > > > > The default runlevel is 2, and all services run in runlevel 2.
> > > >
> > > > What if you change to "id:3:initdefault:" in /etc/inittab, like
> > > > I did?
> > >
> > > Well then the default would be 3
> >
> > Well, duh. Would any harm come? Why does Debian choose rl 2,
> > whereas RH-types choose rl 3?
>
> hi all, thanks for the replies. sorry but i'm still battling. in inittab i have this:
>
> # The default runlevel.
> id:2:initdefault:
>
> now i would have thought to, that if you change it to id:3:initdefault then all is well however Runlevels 2-5 are multi-user (as per inittab) so if 2 boots straight into X then how will 3 make it boot to "what i thought was init 3" ie not X.
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