"Should" doesn't count. How many times have we heard, "In theory, practice and theory agree. In reality, theory and practice differ"? This is one of those times. :-)
Rob van der Heij's warning bout YaST2-sshinstall was probably exactly on target: when I reran the install process today for my test image and made a point of running it, it didn't look familiar to me. I can't believe I missed it, but I apparently I did.
Before I had done all that, when I was worrying about why the runlevel was "unknown," it didn't matter if I had the "12345" in that insttab line or left it blank; it wasn't getting picked up either way. Forcing the system into run level 3 with an "init 3" made it work. Getting a clean re-install seems to have worked wonders. The system now comes up in run level 3, and my acne's even clearing up.
I can't decide if I'm relieve to finally get this working or hugely embarrassed that I apparently screwed up the install process so thoroughly.
Hopefully, the next time someone has odd-ball issues with run levels and SIGNAL SHUTDOWN, these notes will aim them in the right direction.
Nick
Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS) wrote:
Mine (working) is:
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -y -g0
Should work either way though.
-----Original Message----- From: Post, Mark K Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 2:14 PM
Well, that would only leave 0 and 6 (or "unknown" as he's reporting), either of which would mean the system wasn't very usable at that moment. :)
Mark Post
-----Original Message----- From: Marcy Cortes Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 12:55 AM
Perhaps you are not in run levels 1 through 5?
Just a thought.
Marcy
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