Cannot change runlevels?

[daddymac117]

Hey guys,

I just started having this random problem with my video drivers not working properly (which it loves to do), so I downloaded the latest version from nVidia, and attempted to go to runlevel 3 to install them.

When I "init 3" in the konsole, nothing happens. No error message or anything... It just goes back to the prompt:

bignick@linux:~> su
Password:
linux:/home/bignick # init 3
linux:/home/bignick #

You can type "init 3" again and you'd get the same result constantly. Init 3 and init 0 did nothing, however init 6 did restart the computer, which confuses me even more since not all init commands seem to be broken..

I've never had this happen before, and I'm completely stumped as to why it happened, or how to fix it...

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[daddymac117]

Nobody has any ideas as to what might be causing my problem?

[gogalthorp]

Hey guys,

I just started having this random problem with my video drivers not working properly (which it loves to do), so I downloaded the latest version from nVidia, and attempted to go to runlevel 3 to install them.

When I "init 3" in the konsole, nothing happens. No error message or anything... It just goes back to the prompt:

bignick@linux:~> su
Password:
linux:/home/bignick # init 3
linux:/home/bignick #

You can type "init 3" again and you'd get the same result constantly. Init 3 and init 0 did nothing, however init 6 did restart the computer, which confuses me even more since not all init commands seem to be broken..

I've never had this happen before, and I'm completely stumped as to why it happened, or how to fix it...

Any help is greatly appreciated!

The way I do it is to press CTRL-ALT-F1 This will put you in full console (note the GUI is still running in CTRL-ALT-F7)

Log on as root the run init 3

note you must then press enter to get back to a prompt. This will stop the GUI.

to restart the GUI either startx or init 5

note that SU is not exactly the same as really loging in as root

[zsugiart]

Yes, this is my bible when I first try the NVIDIA/XGL thingie

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/17174.html

it details the steps you need to take to get to runlevel 3, VERY clearly

[daddymac117]

Thanks alot for the replies guys!

Strangely, those suggestions didn't work either...The Alt+Ctrl+F1 does bring me into the terminal, but logging into root from there and "init 3" didn't actually stop the X server from running. I was trying to install the video drivers from there, and would get the error that X was still running.

So I Alt+Ctrl+F7'd back to the GUI, and logged out myself. Then at the login screen, I went back to the terminal, still no dice. It still said that the X server was running...In the end, i ended up using the console login option in the KDM login screen to use that, and everything worked.


My issue with this is that i've been using that method to change runlevels for over a year between both SuSE 10 and 10.1, and haven't had any problems with it up until a day or 2 ago. Doing the 'su, password, init 3' commands would automatically log me out of the GUI, close X, and bring me straight to the terminal where I would do whatever I needed to do, then startx to bring it back up again...

Overall, I did get stuff working, but now I have to do extra steps to accomplish what I used to be able to do with 2 commands and a password o_O.

[Dapper Dan]

It's been a while since I ran SuSE, but I think it's like Fedora/RedHat in that you have to give the full path to the init command...

/sbin/init 3