[Sussex] login/logout/reboot/shutdown question (Gentoo)?

[Thomas Adam]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 06:14:27PM +0000, John D. wrote:

> I think I have), It usually stops at an init 3 login. If I then hit
> enter, as expected, it won't go any further. If I type in either user
> or root, it usually starts the GUI login.

Are you meaning that it is invoking sulogin(1)? This is only ever done
if the system cannot boot into the default init-level, or you have disk
issues. Look again at the text when you're prompted for the password,
what else is it saying?

> It's similar in reverse, inthat I select logout from the start
> menu and it just closes to an init 3 logged in level. To shut down
> properly, I have to SU to root and then "reboot" and it'll then close
> down properly and restart offering the grub OS menu.

Yes, this sounds as though you have your runlevels arse about face. What
do you have in /etc/inittab for the line which reads:

id:2:initdefault:

It's two for me, as I use Debian. At this point, I'd also go a stage
further and suggest that your entire init sequence is screwed, but I
can't confirm this.

-- Thomas Adam

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