Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 145716
init 3 freezes at anacron program
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:58 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: i'm not really a computer guy but here is what happened. I am working for the faa and we are looking for a cheaper way to do things as is everyone else. Fedora Core was the answer than to big bulky and expensive displays. We worked with fedora core 2 (don't know the version) for a while and things looked good. We looked to upgrade to fedora 3 test 3 but things haven't worked out too well. Right after formatting the drive that previously had fedora 2 on it we tried an init 3 which failed. I should say it got hung up right after anacron started. I don't know if it was anacron that stalled the process or if it was the program that followed. We did not do an upgrade - we did a complete format of the drive - fyi. We then put on fedora 2 on the same pc and did an init 3 right after the format. The init 3 worked fine and did what it was supposed to do. In both cases we didn't do ANYTHING after the format but type in init 3 after we opened up a terminal window. Our pc's have plenty of space and juice so that shouldn't be an issue. Don't know what other info is needed. Thanks for any help. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. format your drive with fedora 3 or fedora 3 test 3 (both failed)(fedora 2 works fine) 2. open terminal window and at prompt - root@localhost ~]# type in: "init 3" 3. Actual Results: reboot into init 3 gets stuck at anacron Expected Results: boot into inti 3. Additional info:
It just happens that anacron is the last thing to do in runlevel 3. You may be left in a terminal that does not display a login: prompt, but is still active & running - did you press <RETURN> ? Doing so should make the login: prompt appear - does it ? Also pressing <ALT>+<F[1-6]> should switch to a virtual console (VC) that should display a login prompt - does it ? After X comes up in runlevel 5, you should be able to switch to a different VC by pressing <CTRL>+<ALT>+<F[1-6]> . At least, that's what happens on my FC3 machine.
Actually, what appears to happen is this: in FC3 X is started up on virtual console 8, which never has getty / login process initiated for it, so when you type ' init 3', you are still left on that console. You need to press and hold the <ALT> key while pressing any of the function keys <F1> to <F7> to switch to console on which getty is run and the login: prompt is displayed.
I really cannot reproduce this. Yes, when you do an 'init 3' after the system has entered init state 5 and started X, you are left in a virtual console (VC) which has no login: prompt, and you might think the system is hung. But pressing the <ALT> + any of the function keys <F1> to <F6> then gets you to a VC which does display the login: prompt. Hence, this bug is being closed as "NOT A BUG" .