telinit 1 (or init 1) doesn't work in karmic beta livecd
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gdm (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
If you issue "sudo telinit 1" or "sudo init 1" in a live session, you briefly see the console
dialog which asks you what to do (and from which in Jaunty you could select drop into
a root command prompt), but it is immediately replaced by a non-functional gui, i.e. you
see the desktop background but neither the keyboard nor mouse work (except for
ctl-alt-delete which restarts).
I can't capture the dmesg output because nothing seems to work, but as it scrolled by
I saw a bunch of messages indicating various processes respawning.
I tried this with the beta karmic desktop livecd on three machines; only on one of them
did I get a glimpse of the console menu selector. Looking at the various consoles, there
was a line on one of them which indicated that the system was going into single user mode.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xb0000000 irq 16'
Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC883'
Components : 'HDA:10ec0883,
Controls : 23
Simple ctrls : 13
Date: Thu Oct 8 10:48:04 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Beta amd64 (20090929.2)
Lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 5986:0100 Acer, Inc Orbicam
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: Acer Aspire 5100
Package: linux-image-
PccardctlIdent:
Socket 0:
no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
Socket 0:
no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
RelatedPackageV
linux-
linux-firmware 1.19
SourcePackage: linux
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 03/21/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
dmi.bios.version: V2.83
dmi.board.name: Navarro
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: N/A
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:
dmi.product.name: Aspire 5100
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
affects: | ubuntu → upstart (Ubuntu) |
I too have problems switching to runlevel 1 using '$ sudo telinit 1' from the gnome desktop on karmic (final (non LiveCD)). It does quit the desktop but it just hangs at the xsplash screen. This happens on my laptop and desktop. My desktop is using the proprietary ATI video driver and my laptop uses the open source ATI video driver. But I don't think it has to do with that though.