Switch run level

[Nick]

Michael B. Trausch wrote:

> Nick wrote in <nIGdnZFpoPj1ofvZnZ2dnUVZ8t2dnZ2d@bt.com> on Sat May 13 2006
> 16:07:
>

>>If I want to shitch to run-level 3, normally I would simply type sudo
>>init 3, but in Ubuntu this seems to be simply ignored. Anyone got any
>>idea why and how I can get around this? (thanks in advance)
>>

>
>
> The only difference (on my system) is that RL 3 has two less services
> running in it then RL 2 does. Other then that, the configuration for RL2/3
> are the same on my Kubuntu box.
>
> If nothing happens when you switch to runlevels 0, 1, or 6, that's when I'd
> start wondering if it's not working right. (0 = halt, 1 = single-user, 6 =
> reboot).
>
> - Mike

Thanks for response Mike. What I am trying to achieve is to cleanly
shutdown X windows and KDE etc.. and run in a shell. On Fedora, I would
do this by either booting into RL3 or by simply typing init 3 while in
RL5 ( which would leave me in a shell with no X-Windows. I can then
restart x-windows by typing startx.)
Occasionally, there are packages that require this for configuration,
but for a server where you don't need X/ KDE / Gnome, this is very useful.

It seems Ubuntu is setup such that RL3 is (virtually) identical to RL5.

I am not sure why - I will put out another post in this case.

Many Thanks

Nick

[Toby Newman]

On 2006-05-15, Nick <nicholas@outram.org> wrote:

> Michael B. Trausch wrote:

>> Nick wrote in <nIGdnZFpoPj1ofvZnZ2dnUVZ8t2dnZ2d@bt.com> on Sat May 13 2006
>> 16:07:
>>

>>>If I want to shitch to run-level 3, normally I would simply type sudo
>>>init 3, but in Ubuntu this seems to be simply ignored. Anyone got any
>>>idea why and how I can get around this? (thanks in advance)
>>>

>>
>>
>> The only difference (on my system) is that RL 3 has two less services
>> running in it then RL 2 does. Other then that, the configuration for RL2/3
>> are the same on my Kubuntu box.
>>
>> If nothing happens when you switch to runlevels 0, 1, or 6, that's when I'd
>> start wondering if it's not working right. (0 = halt, 1 = single-user, 6 =
>> reboot).
>>
>> - Mike

>
> Thanks for response Mike. What I am trying to achieve is to cleanly
> shutdown X windows and KDE etc.. and run in a shell. On Fedora, I would
> do this by either booting into RL3 or by simply typing init 3 while in
> RL5 ( which would leave me in a shell with no X-Windows. I can then
> restart x-windows by typing startx.)
> Occasionally, there are packages that require this for configuration,
> but for a server where you don't need X/ KDE / Gnome, this is very useful.
>
> It seems Ubuntu is setup such that RL3 is (virtually) identical to RL5.
>
> I am not sure why - I will put out another post in this case.

I use KDE and, IIRC, I use the command
killall kdm
to close KDE down when I want to do this sort of thing.

--
-Toby, who...
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Ignore any mail delivery error.

[ray]

On Sat, 13 May 2006 21:07:03 +0100, Nick wrote:

> If I want to shitch to run-level 3, normally I would simply type sudo
> init 3, but in Ubuntu this seems to be simply ignored. Anyone got any
> idea why and how I can get around this? (thanks in advance)

Assuming that you want to get out of the GUI:

/etc/init.d/gdm stop