Fedora (c3t3) /sbin/init 3

[skythra]

Well what happens is:



and then it just sits there. For hours.

anyhow, any ideas, i already tried killing that anacron from booting.. but that only stopped it from booting into runlevel 5 i think. Any idea's on how to get around it? Or.. something, or whats happening? any ideas on further ways to obtain more info?

Let me get this straight. The anacron service is where the freeze occurs, so when you disabled it in runlevel 5, it booted up normally. If that is so, just disable it for runlevel 3 using the system-config-services tool, Main Menu > System Settings > Server Settings > Services.

Assumine I understand your situation, you can get more information about the problem by starting the service once you have logged in. Once it starts or crashes, check your System logs under Main Menu > System Tools.

[skythra]

Okay, i realized how to actually properly stop the startup of services in that services tool. But now it doesnt get that far, so my opinion would be that it isnt to do with anacron at all.

Please stop all unecessary services like SMB (samba), pcmcia, irqbalance, automount, etc. You should only have a few system services running like crond, xinetd, messagebus, syslog, network, iptables. You should try the system without the kudzu service becuase its know to cause conflicts.

[skythra]

They are shutting down as you may notice, because im going from runlevel 5 to runlevel 3. As you can see it kills all those other processes, and just runs the ones for runlevel 3 i have setup. Ill go kill some more however.

[skythra]

stopping system message bus:
stopping atd:
stopping cupts
shutting down  sendmail:
shutting down sm-lient:
shutting down SMB services:
etc
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.
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Starting irqbalance:
starting automount: no mountpoints defined:

Yeah It kills/shuts down a whole lot of services that were running, and just has a couple going, but no terminal or anything. Is that because im missing a service? or? What are your services running in runlevel 3?

edit: is there a way to start up the PC so it starts in runlevel 3? and then how would after that, i change it to start to runlevel 5 as defualt?

Thanks for the help by the way, i actually have learnt alot today, and although that post didnt help me directly it showed me an area of things i didnt realize, and now i have a better idea of linux =D and thats what im mostly about

[ghaefb]

I've seen this on my friends computer... Fc3t3 - exactly the same problem. init3 freezes.
If you change /etc/inittab (id:5 to id:3) and reboot to runlevel3, it works.
I have no idea why.
I installed nvidia graphic drivers (installer script) and did all the necessary stuff (copy from /dev/nvidia* to /etc/udev/...)
The system locks up in runlevel 5 while booting. I can boot in runlevel 3 and run startx or gdm from there.
Weird

So is this an nvidia problem, or does it affect other setups. Its time to test...

[kennon]

Hmmm...mine does the same thing. I do not have the Nvidia driver loaded. But I just hit enter at the point where is looks to be frozen and I get a command line. On mine it is like it will not drop to a command line automatically but as soon as I press enter I get one.

[JLF_65]

Originally Posted by kennon

Hmmm...mine does the same thing. I do not have the Nvidia driver loaded. But I just hit enter at the point where is looks to be frozen and I get a command line. On mine it is like it will not drop to a command line automatically but as soon as I press enter I get one.

Same here. Hit return and you can login as root. Then install the nvidia driver, edit your x11 conf, and remove xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL. Then be sure to add "/sbin/modprobe nvidia" to /etc/rc.local and you're all set to go back to level 5. Works fine for me.

Has someone reported this bug yet?

[ghaefb]

I know what you guys(kennon,JLF_65) this is normal.
When you hit enter you get a login prompt.

But in some cases you can't do nothing.
This init 3 issue is not a nvidia problem, but it looks like that it's related somehow.

Must be a bug.

[ravalox]

I just had the same issue, I was trying to install the nvidia driver and /sbin/init 3 goes to a place where I cannot enter any commands; text shows up when I type it, but no commands are interpreted.

[jale2ice]

I have the same issue. All you have to do to get the screen to refresh (yes, to refresh) is hit enter... Mine froze too and I switched to a different tty and I was already in init 3.

[JLF_65]

I should mention that this "problem" has been around (for me at least) since FC2t2. All versions of FC I have tried have this problem.