init 1 hangs

[Ric Moore]

On 12/15/2012 02:21 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.
>
> BTW: IIRC you're coming from Fedora - then forget most of what you know
> about runlevels. The default runlevel is 2 for ubuntu.

I miss that too... Ric



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