Re: Set inittab to 3 -

2011-05-26 Thread Jan Willies
2011/5/25 Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net On 25/05/11 05:48, Jan Willies wrote: Ah sorry, you edited /etc/inittab. Yes, in the grub screen at the end of the 'kernel-line' Once I was able to boot F15 again it would produce an error message instead of starting xfce.

Re: Set inittab to 3 -

2011-05-26 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 26/05/11 03:15, Jan Willies wrote: You can first try to boot with systemd.unit=multi-user.target before making any permament change. See the other replies for the symlinking issue. I can enter a at the grub screen and then systemd.unit=multi-user.target and get a text

Re: Set inittab to 3 -

2011-05-26 Thread Jan Willies
2011/5/26 Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net On 26/05/11 03:15, Jan Willies wrote: You can first try to boot with systemd.unit=multi-user.target before making any permament change. See the other replies for the symlinking issue. I can enter a at the grub screen and then

Re: Set inittab to 3 -

2011-05-26 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 26/05/11 11:19, Jan Willies wrote: 2011/5/26 Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net On 26/05/11 03:15, Jan Willies wrote: You can first try to boot with systemd.unit=multi-user.target before making any permament change. See the other replies for the

Re: Set inittab to 3 -

2011-05-26 Thread Jan Willies
2011/5/26 Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net On 26/05/11 11:19, Jan Willies wrote: 2011/5/26 Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net On 26/05/11 03:15, Jan Willies wrote: You can first try to boot with systemd.unit=multi-user.target before making any permament

Re: Set inittab to 3 -

2011-05-26 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 26/05/11 11:34, Jan Willies wrote: 2011/5/26 Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net On 26/05/11 11:19, Jan Willies wrote: 2011/5/26 Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net On 26/05/11 03:15, Jan Willies wrote: You can first try to boot with

Re: Set inittab to 3 -

2011-05-26 Thread Jan Willies
2011/5/26 Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net On 26/05/11 11:34, Jan Willies wrote: 2011/5/26 Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net On 26/05/11 11:19, Jan Willies wrote: 2011/5/26 Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net On 26/05/11 03:15, Jan Willies wrote:

Set inittab to 3 -

2011-05-25 Thread Bob Goodwin
New install F-15: When I attempted to change the inittab setting from 5 to 3 as I normally do I was told that was no longer the way. I should do ln -s ... That told me the file already existed so I deleted it and ran the command again with the appropriate

Re: Set inittab to 3 -

2011-05-25 Thread Jan Willies
2011/5/25 Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net New install F-15: When I attempted to change the inittab setting from 5 to 3 as I normally do I was told that was no longer the way. I should do ln -s ... That told me the file already existed so I deleted it and ran

Re: Set inittab to 3 -

2011-05-25 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 25/05/11 05:33, Jan Willies wrote: 2011/5/25 Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net New install F-15: When I attempted to change the inittab setting from 5 to 3 as I normally do I was told that was no longer the way. I should do ln -s ...

Re: Set inittab to 3 -

2011-05-25 Thread Hiisi
On 25 May 2011 13:33, Jan Willies j...@willies.info wrote: --SNIP-- Your can boot with systemd.unit=emergency.target and fix it. Or you could boot your system from live cd, mount hard drive and edit inittab. -- Hiisi -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change

Re: Set inittab to 3 -

2011-05-25 Thread Jan Willies
2011/5/25 Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net On 25/05/11 05:33, Jan Willies wrote: 2011/5/25 Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net New install F-15: When I attempted to change the inittab setting from 5 to 3 as I normally do I was told that was no longer

Re: Set inittab to 3 -

2011-05-25 Thread Jan Willies
2011/5/25 Jan Willies j...@willies.info 2011/5/25 Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net On 25/05/11 05:33, Jan Willies wrote: 2011/5/25 Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net New install F-15: When I attempted to change the inittab setting from 5 to 3 as I

Re: Set inittab to 3 -

2011-05-25 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 25/05/11 05:44, Hiisi wrote: On 25 May 2011 13:33, Jan Williesj...@willies.info wrote: --SNIP-- Your can boot with systemd.unit=emergency.target and fix it. Or you could boot your system from live cd, mount hard drive and edit inittab. -- Hiisi Yes, that part worked after a

Re: Set inittab to 3

2011-05-25 Thread R. G. Newbury
2011/5/25 Jan Williesj...@willies.info 2011/5/25 Bob Goodwinbobgood...@wildblue.net On 25/05/11 05:33, Jan Willies wrote: 2011/5/25 Bob Goodwinbobgood...@wildblue.net New install F-15: When I attempted to change the inittab setting

Re: Set inittab to 3 -

2011-05-25 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 25/05/11 05:48, Jan Willies wrote: Ah sorry, you edited /etc/inittab. Yes, in the grub screen at the end of the 'kernel-line' Once I was able to boot F15 again it would produce an error message instead of starting xfce. Reinstalling is a lot faster than

Re: Set inittab to 3

2011-05-25 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 25/05/11 10:02, R. G. Newbury wrote: 2011/5/25 Jan Williesj...@willies.info 2011/5/25 Bob Goodwinbobgood...@wildblue.net In the kernel-line, where you did put '3'. Ah sorry, you edited /etc/inittab. Yes, in the grub screen at the end of the 'kernel-line' After fixing this, you can

Re: Set inittab to 3

2011-05-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/26/2011 02:00 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: Once again this is making a major problem of what has always been a routine configuration change. For fresh installations of Fedora 15, /etc/inittab has the documentation on how to do this. On upgrades, it might get saved as

Re: Set inittab to 3 -

2011-05-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/25/2011 11:50 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: [bobg@box6]$ ln -s /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target ln: failed to create symbolic link `/etc/systemd/system/default.target': File exists And this is where I got in

Re: Set inittab to 3 -

2011-05-25 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/25/2011 02:20 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: [bobg@box6]$ ln -s /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target ln: failed to create symbolic link `/etc/systemd/system/default.target': File exists Probably won't help much but to

Re: Set inittab to 3

2011-05-25 Thread Robert Nichols
On 05/25/2011 03:30 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 25/05/11 10:02, R. G. Newbury wrote: After fixing this, you can replace inittab with the script I posted in Issue 53, which is archived here:

Re: Set inittab to 3

2011-05-25 Thread Bob Goodwin
On 25/05/11 16:41, Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 05/26/2011 02:00 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: Once again this is making a major problem of what has always been a routine configuration change. For fresh installations of Fedora 15, /etc/inittab has the documentation on how to do this.

Re: Set inittab to 3

2011-05-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/26/2011 03:35 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote: That describes what I have been doing. It does not work! Step one fails. rm /etc/systemd/system/default.target Results in No such file or directory, however I can list it with ls. The method documented in the wiki works fine and

Re: Set inittab to 3 -

2011-05-25 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 05:41 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 25/05/11 05:33, Jan Willies wrote: 2011/5/25 Bob Goodwin bobgood...@wildblue.net New install F-15: When I attempted to change the inittab setting from 5 to 3 as I normally do I was told that was no longer