THUS SPAKE Miquel van Smoorenburg, on Sep 2: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Geordie Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was experimenting with changing runlevels and exec'd 'telinit' > >from an non-login bash in xterm. When I used a number as an argument > >nothing happened. I used 's' and the keyboard froze. > > You are not supposed to use 'init s' manually, and certainly not > if you have no idea what the command does. > > If you want to go to single user mode use 'init 1' or 'shutdown now' > > > Does the init/x combination normally behave this way? > > Possibly. All kinds of weird things can happen if you do 'init s' > manually. > > Mike.
OK. No manual 'init s'. (I should say that this installation of debian 2.2 is non-critical to any application other than furthering my own understanding of linux/unix systems, debian, and computer's in general. The box it is on is a PII 300mhz 64 m ram 6 g hd that was being used as a hotmail terminal.) However I was able to duplicate the keyboard freezing by: 'init 1' from within x, 'init 5' from console, manually starting x ( as /etc/rc5.d/ contains K99xdm), becoming root and exec'ing 'init 2'. _____ Geordie Birch DOW Vancouver http://vancouver.tao.ca "The number of Unix installations has increased to sixteen, with more expected."
