On Sunday 21 December 2003 6:41 am, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
SUSE 9.0 Pro Single User Auto Sign-On
I tried to access an rpm file directory on an apparently bad cd [...] [rebooted]... system is very slow, ... I can start my box to init 3 and then startx as user and the system is mostly normal... If I start to init 3 and the init 5, I get the same action described poorly above. check to see what is enabled for runlevel 5 -- it sounds like a process is trying to run [perhaps KDE is trying to "auto restart" the process that tried to access the directory] and is having a very bad day. Once you boot to level 3, can you telnet/ssh in from a second machine (or log int to another virtual console) and run "top"? If so, watch the output of top as you switch to runlevel 5 -- that might give a clue.
As to how to stop the "auto restart" feature, dunno -- I'm sure it's documented "somewhere" ;) -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net