Runlevel 3 was the key. I don't need GUI on this server anyway. I can do everything I need remotely so long as I have an IP addrses. I had to turn Samba and Apache on for Runlevel 3 and now it's working smoothly again. I edited inittab (of course) and have restarted the server a couple of times.
I still have the issue of not being able to do an init 6 (restart). It just hangs and never restarts. Init 0 works fine, it actually powers the server down like it should.
Thanks for all the help! It's back up and working again.
Jon
Jon Moss wrote:
Runlevel 3, yes, I would like to do that, but once it tries to load the graphical interface, I can't get to any other console - not even the system one. And since the ethernet shuts down or disconnects also, I can't SSH in or anything.
You can play with the boot-loader settings and enter a different runlevel at startup. Press <tab> in lilo, or typically 'e' in grub and you can edit the kernel command line.
Usually, you can add 'single' or 'emergency' to boot into single-user recovery mode, or enter a number (ie: 3) to boot to a specific runlevel.
Once your system is booted, you can use init or telinit to switch to different runlevels (ie: from single-user mode, run 'telinit 3' to get to runlevel 3).
-- Charles Steinkuehler [email protected]
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