[ale] Unable to boot up in run level 5

[hirsch at zapmedia.com]

John J. Cruz writes:
 > Keith,
 > 
 > Thanks for your help.  The inittab has always had 5 for the id.  As a
 > matter of fact I even added init 5 as in "id:5:initdefault:init 5"  This
 > didn't work either.  Again thanks for your help.

How certain are you that you aren't in runlevel 5?  If for some reason
X or xdm won't run, it could look like you are in runlevel 3.

I don't know of a way to query the runlevel.  Instead, make sure you
have some task in runlevel 5 that isn't in runlevel 3.  For instance,
in RL 5 create an executable script that just does "touch /tmp/rl5".
Then reboot.  Login and check to see if the file /tmp/rl5 exists.

--Michael

 > jjc
 > 
 > On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 16:39, Keith Hopkins wrote:
 > > 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?
 > > > 
 > > > My environment is Red Hat Linux ver 7.2 and Ximian Desktop ver 1.0. 
 > > > I've used linuxconf to set the run level to 5 (including /etc/telinit 5)
 > > > but w/o effect
 > > > 
 > > > Thanksfor your help
 > > > 
 > > > jjc
 > > > 
 > > 
 > > 
 > > Look in /etc/inittab, check the lines that read:
 > > 
 > > # default runlevel
 > > id:5:initdefault:
 > > 
 > > The "5" after the "id:" is what your run level will be set to at boot time.
 > > 
 > > Lost in Tokyo,
 > >    Keith
 > > 
 > > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
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