Steven Hatfield wrote:
If you type "cat /var/log/messages | grep -in runlevel" do you see something to the effect of: 541:Apr 5 23:30:42 linux init: Entering runlevel: 5
Here's several days' worth of it, including time before the change when kdm worked: 15289:Apr 20 22:43:53 suillus init: Switching to runlevel: 0 15393:Apr 21 13:27:34 suillus init: Switching to runlevel: 6 15484:Apr 21 16:24:55 suillus init: Switching to runlevel: 6 15637:Apr 23 21:18:34 suillus init: Switching to runlevel: 0 15780:Apr 24 22:35:20 suillus init: Switching to runlevel: 0 15894:Apr 25 22:15:58 suillus init: Switching to runlevel: 0 16053:Apr 26 21:53:54 suillus init: Switching to runlevel: 0 16124:Apr 27 10:47:51 suillus init: Switching to runlevel: 3 16125:Apr 27 10:49:35 suillus init: Switching to runlevel: 6 16177:Apr 27 10:56:51 suillus init: Switching to runlevel: 6 16229:Apr 27 10:59:44 suillus init: Switching to runlevel: 6 16292:Apr 27 11:06:55 suillus init: Switching to runlevel: 6 16351:Apr 27 11:13:32 suillus init: Switching to runlevel: 6 16451:Apr 27 11:23:37 suillus init: Switching to runlevel: 6 16523:Apr 27 11:25:25 suillus init: Switching to runlevel: 6 16595:Apr 27 11:31:02 suillus init: Switching to runlevel: 6 16646:Apr 27 11:33:44 suillus init: Switching to runlevel: 6 16704:Apr 27 11:56:33 suillus init: Switching to runlevel: 6 16755:Apr 27 11:58:25 suillus init: Switching to runlevel: 3 16756:Apr 27 11:58:37 suillus init: Switching to runlevel: 5 16763:Apr 27 12:01:40 suillus init: Switching to runlevel: 6
and if you type "init 5" as root, what happens?
Nada. It comes right back with the next command line prompt (all this in console mode) and no visible effect whatsoever. And here's some more interesting command-line output: root@suillus:/aux/home/pwa > /etc/init.d/xdm status Checking for service kdm: is NOT running root@suillus:/aux/home/pwa > /etc/init.d/xdm restart Shutting down service kdm done Starting service kdm done root@suillus:/aux/home/pwa > ps -A | grep kdm root@suillus:/aux/home/pwa > /etc/init.d/xdm status Checking for service kdm: is NOT running root@suillus:/aux/home/pwa > Paul Abrahams