Public bug reported: I don't think it's just me, as I'm able to reproduce this on 2 physical systems as well as a vanilla qemu/kvm instance, immediately after fresh installs from both ubuntu-16.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso and ubuntu-16.04.2 -desktop-amd64.iso
When I run 'sudo init 1' or 'sudo telinit 1' from any virtual console, the system never gets to single-user mode. Instead, I am presented with a non-functioning login prompt and no way to actually interact with the machine except Ctrl-Alt-Del, which luckily still works. The login prompts look normal, but only appear on two virtual consoles: tty1 always, plus the one I was using (if it wasn't tty1). All others are blank. Typing my username results in the message "System is going down," instead of a password prompt. After a couple of minutes, it will clear the screen and draw a fresh prompt, with the same results; otherwise, nothing changes until I give the three-fingered salute to reboot. I've attached a screenshot from the VM. This happens regardless of whether I first log out of my desktop, stop the lightdm service entirely, or neither. The truly bizarre part is that if I enter the command from inside a gnome-terminal running on the desktop, it works as expected. It's a little unbelievable, but seems to be reliably reproduceable. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: init 1.29ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-36.36~16.04.1-generic 4.8.11 Uname: Linux 4.8.0-36-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Fri Mar 10 22:10:34 2017 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-03-11 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215.2) SourcePackage: init-system-helpers UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: systemd (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial ** Package changed: init-system-helpers (Ubuntu) => systemd (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1671991 Title: init 1 locks you out of system immediately when run from virtual console To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1671991/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs