init 3 doesn't kill X

theozz · #1 21st December 2010, 01:19 AM

Ok, I'm a little perplexed by this one and maybe its just me, but I can't find much on it.

I'm running Fedora 14 x86_64 on a couple of different machines. In some instances X doesn't shut down when running init 3.

Has anyone else experienced this behavior?

stevea · #2 21st December 2010, 01:49 AM

Try "telinit 3" and not "init 3".

Or maybe I'm missing your point. Are you setting the ru-level in inittab ?

theozz · #3 21st December 2010, 01:50 AM

Nope, I should have mentioned it earlier, but no dice on telinit either

No real point, I just sometimes like to go to runlevel 3 from runlevel 5 and I've never had a problem like this. I want to keep the default at 5 so modifying inittab won't help me here

stevea · #4 21st December 2010, 02:45 AM

I thinkk this is a problem with the 'initscripts' package. X service is started from /etc/init/prefdm.conf, but I don't think there is a way to stop the X11 service reliably once started.

You should report at bugzilla.redhat.com

Breeze · #5 21st December 2010, 02:46 AM

I have the same problem on my fedora 14,can't quit X by /etc/init'd.

sonoran · #6 21st December 2010, 06:09 AM

In fedora 14 telinit is a link to init. If you read the comments in /etc/inittab you might find out how to change runlevels using upstart, but I gave up. Considering that upstart will be deprecated in F15 in favor of systemd, messing with upstart seemed a waste of time.

There was some discussion in this thread: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=255432

mk27 · #7 21st December 2010, 04:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theozz

Ok, I'm a little perplexed by this one and maybe its just me, but I can't find much on it.

I'm running Fedora 14 x86_64 on a couple of different machines. In some instances X doesn't shut down when running init 3.

Has anyone else experienced this behavior?

I have one new F14 32-bit install, and I was kind of pleasantly surprised that it seems to obey traditional runlevel stuff as my first hassle with new installs is always getting it to stop booting into the GUI. I haven't found one that won't yet. When I do, I'll ditch that distro, but I think it is very unlikely as a primary use of linux is on servers where no GUI is installed at all, so nothing essential can depend on such and the people in charge know that.

Anyway, here's what worked for me: in /etc/inittab you will find a line like this

Code:

id:5:initdefault

Change the 5 to a 3. Reboot. You should get a text console login.

jpollard · #8 21st December 2010, 05:26 PM

You can try the following as root:

Code:

killall gdm-binary

This should kill the gdm X manager process, which is supposed to terminate any X server it manages.

I don't offhand know the KDE manager, but I think it has "kdm" in the
name. I'm not sure it would be kdm-binary - use ps to be sure.