init 1 hangs

[JD]

On 12/15/2012 12:21 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> JD wrote:
>> Ubuntu 12.10
>> # init 1
>>
>> hangs and never enters single user mode.
>> Gets stuck displaying the purple screen with the word
>> Ubuntu in the middle and the 4 dots beneath it.
> It looks like the screen displays the boot splash screen. It should be
> possible to switch back to your wanted VT with Ctrl-Alt-F1..F6.
yes I tried that. Did not work. No response.
In fact no response even to Ctrl-Alt_Del
>
> BTW: IIRC you're coming from Fedora - then forget most of what you know
> about runlevels. The default runlevel is 2 for ubuntu.
>
>
> Nils
Man page for runlevel in section 7 says:

        Eight runlevels are permitted, the first seven are numbered 0-6 
and the
        eighth is named S or s (both are permitted).

So, runlevel 1 should be perfectly legit and it should (or must) work,
else it should be taken out of the man page :)