[SOLVED] Cannot switch runlevel

autogeek · 01-06-2011, 03:51 PM

@mRgOBLIN
Whoops! I didn't realize that Slackware used this configuration. I am used to 3-multiuser, 4-unused and 5-X11. This issue is now sorted out after I reconfigured init to start up to runlevel 4 in inittab.

@jamesf
My system was configured to start up to runlevel 3/5 in inittab after which I used to start X manually. Now that it has been corrected, init 3 works.

Thanks for all the help!

That said, the issue with "xdm stop" remains.

Code:

root@arikere:/home/arikere>xdm stop
xdm error (pid 2516): extra arguments on command line: "stop"

Any ideas?

Alien Bob · 01-06-2011, 04:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by autogeek

That said, the issue with "xdm stop" remains.

That's because xdm does not accept "stop" as a parameter.

You are confusing the xdm login manager with another distro's xdm service start/stop script.

Eric