Bug 708571

Summary: "init 3" stops working after yum upgrade
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Todd <ToddAndMargo>
Component: upstartAssignee: Petr Lautrbach <plautrba>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, plautrba
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Description Todd 2011-05-28 04:42:28 UTC
I have had this happen to me two times now.  After install the FC-14 Xfce spin, I am able to jump to run level 3 with "init 3" as root.  After "yum upgrade", "init 3" just ignores me and goes back to the command prompt.  I am stuck editing "inittab" and rebooting.

Comment 1 Josh Boyer 2011-08-23 20:21:23 UTC
This really doesn't sound like a kernel problem.  You might try 'telinit u' and then init 3 after the yum upgrade.

Comment 2 Petr Lautrbach 2011-08-25 12:57:16 UTC
I've just installed Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-XFCE.iso and run yum upgrade and I am not able to reproduce this.

upstart upgraded from upstart-0.6.5-9.fc14 to upstart-1.2-2.fc14 and runlevel change with init command works as expected

which versions you have? is 'initctl list' working? what you get from 'runlevel' command?

Comment 3 Todd 2011-08-26 17:48:16 UTC
First attempt to reporduce befoe replying at "init 3" froze my virtual machine

Version: Fedora-14-x86_64-Live-XFCE.iso 

"initctl list" fills my screen with stuff

"runlevel" gives "N 5"

Tried doing a "yum upgrade" to get me current with you, but it froze at 84/288 of its downloads (gnome-python2-gnomekeyring).

Will get back to you if I ever get the thing to yum

Many thanks,
-T

Comment 4 Todd 2011-08-26 19:18:52 UTC
Okay, removed Open Office to reduce the upgrade size.  Pulled a "yum clean all" and that stopped the "yum upgrade" crash.  Ran a full "yum upgrade" and rebooted.

As root in a command shell, ran "init 3".  Went straight back to the prompt.  But, this time there was no freeze ups.

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