[ale] Unable to boot up in run level 5

[Jim Popovitch]

why not just execute 'runlevel' after you boot?

-Jim P.

-----Original Message-----
From: James P. Kinney III [mailto:jkinney at localnetsolutions.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 11:14 PM
Cc: Ale
Subject: Re: [ale] Unable to boot up in run level 5


Michael's suggestion is great. I would take it one step further and have
the script echo the runlevel into /tmp/runlevel for each runlevel (echo
"runlevel x" > /tmp/runlevel). You need to verify that the problem is
not simply X is broken. telinit 3 will change the runlevel to 3. Now
manually start X. Most times, startx will do this. If X won't start,
that's the problem. There are logs for X in /var/log.

On Sun, 2002-01-06 at 21:02, hirsch at zapmedia.com wrote:
> 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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