Thanks Dale. Will try tonight when I get home. After using Gentoo for a number of years you get used to doing things a certain. These mailing lists really help expand knowledge. Regards JDM
-----Original Message----- From: Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 02:22:27 To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Init Dale wrote: > JDM wrote: >> When switching from runlevel 3 to 1 "init 1" seems to work as I >> would expect. When I "init 3" applications hang, I have to keep >> hitting return to get any progress. Usually I end up rebooting as X >> won't start. >> >> Question - should I be using init to change runlevels or is there a >> better way of doing this? >> >> This has been happening for a long time and definitely before openrc. >> I usually reboot to avoid the hang ups. >> JDM > > You should be using the rc command tho init should work in theory. > Example, "rc single" or "rc default" or whatever runlevel you want to > switch to. That is without the quotes tho. > > I did notice earlier that when I switch to single, it is not > unmounting some file systems for some reason. When I try to switch > back to default, rc sort of pukes. If I unmount everything first, it > switches cleanly. I think openrc has some . . . weirdness still. > > You can check out the rc man page for more info. That help any? > > Dale > > :-) :-) > Let me add this, if you type rc then hit tab twice, you should see some more rc type commands. You may want to check into some of them too. They provide info and do other things, including adding/removing things from a runlevel. I'm assuming you are a bit new to Gentoo. I may be wrong and it wouldn't be the first time either. Dale :-) :-)
