-----Original Message----- From: jlamb [SMTP:jlamb@gordonschools.aberdeenshire.sch.uk] Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 9:12 AM To: suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Run levels
First post from me so hello folks! I have just installed Suse Linux 7.0 and as a first time Linux user I seem to have fallen at the first hurdle. The system was running OK, booting to the command line and I could run KDE with startx. I then decided to (this is where I start talking gibberish because I am now at work, my PC is at home and I forgot to bring in my notes) edit id:3:initdefault to id:5:initdefault which should let me boot directly into X. The system now hangs on bootup saying "No more processes at this runlevel". What's happening?
I'm only guessing here, as I don't have much info about your setup, nor that of Suse as I've never used that distribution. I'd guess that you don't have anything in /etc/inittab set to run on runlevel 5. On top of that, it looks like you haven't got any services defined in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d (or the problem in your /etc/inittab is causing these services to be omitted). The "No more processes..." message is the one that you should normally get when you are shutting down the PC. It means that there are no more jobs running that were started when you booted/swapped to this runlevel. Obviously this is happening immediately because none are getting started. There is a way of telling LiLo to boot in single user mode (runlevel 1 I think) to enable you to get back in and edit back to runlevel 3 to allow you to fix the problem. Unfortunately, I can't remember what it is. Hope this help, Gary
Regards John Lamb The Gordon Schools Huntly Aberdeenshire
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