Re: Fedora 11: Problem switching to single user mode (runlevel 1)

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Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 17:10:57 +0000,
  g <geleem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
if you want runlevel 1, you need to boot to runlevel 1 from start.
You can use the telinit command to switch run levels. Doing this from
an X session is going to drop your session, so you want to be OK with
that before doing it.

Hello
I understand all of that. On Fedora 8, if I would be in runlevel 5, and wanted to do the closest thing I could short of rebooting, I would, as root, run "/sbin/telinit 1" I would eventually come to a command prompt. I would then do "/sbin/telinit 5" and return to X. But, my question still has not been covered. For convenience sake, I will quote it here:

My problem is that if I run "/sbin/telinit 1" from a terminal while in
runlevel 5, the normal messages appear and everything LOOKS fine, but then I
am dumped to a plain black screen with no apparent way of escape.  I
actually have to reboot to get out of it...

Like the question says, instead of ending up at a command prompt, I am dumped to a plain black screen with no apparent way to get out. The only way to get out of it is to hit the reset button on my computer and reboot. If I phrased all of that clearly, you probably see the difference (for me anyway) between running "/sbin/telinit 1" on Fedora 8 and Fedora 11.

X now runs off VT1, I think, whereas it used to be VT7.  "telinit 1"
would drop you to VT1, where the X had been before.  Have you tried
"ALT-F2" (or "CTRL-ALT-F2") while in the black screen to get to a
console?
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