[CALUG] How do I get out of X?

[Jim Sansing]

There should be a boot option, but I have never been able find out if
it is 'init=n' or 'runlevel=n' or something else (anyone? ;~).

But if you can get to /etc/inittab, change the default to the appropriate
run level and reboot.  Note that I always set mine to runlevel 3 and
run startx after logging in.  I have only had a few problems with X,
but when it hits, it hurts.

id:3:initdefault:

# runlevel 0  is  System halt   (Do not use this for initdefault!)
# runlevel 1  is  Single user mode
# runlevel 2  is  Local multiuser without remote network (e.g. NFS)
# runlevel 3  is  Full multiuser with network
# runlevel 4  is  Not used
# runlevel 5  is  Full multiuser with network and xdm
# runlevel 6  is  System reboot (Do not use this for initdefault!)

Later . . .   Jim



John Alan Hastings wrote:
>Browne at t-online.de wrote:
>  
>>Hmmm, guess I haven't needed to do this since quite a few
>>releases ago.  I'm trying to upgrade my graphics driver
>>(to NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8762-pkg1.run), which means
>>I have to get out of X.  As I recall, there was always a menu
>>option at the login screen to log in without X running, but now
>>with RH AS3, I see no such option.  Killing X, and everything
>>that looks connected to X, only results in it automatically
>>restarting.   init 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 (it doesn't seem to matter)
>>just causes the machine to reboot all the way back to run
>>level 6.  What obvious solution am I missing?
>>
>>TIA - Ed
>>    
>
>It doesn't sound quite right.  Init 3 should take you to full multiuser
>with net but without X.  Init 4 should be undefined and I don't know
>what it would do.
>
>I would do a CTRL-ALT-F1 and log in as root at the system console and do
> an init 1 there.  This is single user, no net and no X.
>
>Alan
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