[TriLUG] unable to boot up in run level 5

[Ben Pitzer]

Please don't think that I'm talking down to you when I ask you this, but
are you sure you're booting into runlevel 3?  When you run the command
'runlevel', you get a 3 back, right?  I've actually had a user assume
before that he was booting into runlevel 3 before, when he actually was
booting into runlevel 5, but having an error with his X environment.  

Regards,
Ben Pitzer


On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 17:05, John J. Cruz wrote:
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> I edited the file /etc/inittab (the id was always set to 5) as you
> suggested as follows "id:5:indefault:init 5"  Unfortunatelly this had no
> affect, it booted up in run level 3.  Again thanks for your help.
> 
> jjc
> 
> On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 16:11, rpjday wrote:
> > On 6 Jan 2002, John J. Cruz wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > This pass Wednesday I downloaded and installed linuxconf (ver 1.26r5-1)
> > > and gnome-linuxconf.  Since then I have not been able to auto-operate at
> > > run level 5 at bootup, it always comes up on run level 3. I've used 
> > > linuxconf
> > > inittab
> > > telinit 5
> > > linux 5 at boot up
> > > 
> > > None of the above have produced the desired affect.
> > > 
> > > What statement should I add to lilo.conf to affect a run level of 5
> > > instead of 3?  Currently no statement in lilo.conf exists to set the run
> > > level.
> > > 
> > > Is there another file that I should edit to set the run level?
> > 
> > but of course.  /etc/inittab, the line containing "initdefault".
> > change the 3 to 5, and just type "init 5" to get there immediately.
> > subsequent reboots will now go to 5.
> > 
> > rday
> > 
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