I want to get to runlevel 3, i.e., text + network.
From graphics window I open alternate tty using ctr-alt-fx. I get a login command.
I successfully login as root. I enter “init 3” and get only a blank screen with no cursor. No keystrokes do anything.
Am I doing something wrong?
thanks, tom kosvic
systemctl set-default multi-user.target to set as default. At a console login you can run systemctl isolate multi-user.target to switch.
Using “systemctl set-default multi-user.target” did not change anything; still blank screen. I got no console window. No solution.
After running that command, though, upon reboot it stopped at a login command with no graphics. After setting default back to “graphical.target” I was able to get reboot to login to mate desktop.
Any further suggestions on how to get to init 3.
thanks, tom kosvic
Interesting you get a blank screen.
Works here, as always has (Leap 15.6) on all the machines.
You wrote: “ctr-alt-fx” … which doesn’t designate which screen. I explicily do a “CTRL-ALT-F1” (one). Then I execute command “init 3”. I’ve never used “CTRL-ALT-F2 thru F12”
With some laptops, I’ve had to use “CTRL-ALT-fn-F1”.
I think I tried F3 and maybe F5. I’ll try F1. My graphics screen is F2.
Good tip @myswtest . CTRL-ALT-F1 did appear to work. I entered “init 3” and login redrew but came back; no blank screen. Never occurred that any of the other ttys might not work.
Not sure how to display init level but I think i am there.
Thanks, tom kosvic
That means you did not set the usage of the F-keys in the BIOSes identical. My Thinkpad came with that (IMHO wrong) setting active
What is x? I guess it best would be 1. That is the only one existing in multi-user.target. Maybe falling back from x (where x > `) gives problems.
Thus Ctrl-Alt-F1 .
Sorry about all the confusion I generated by saying ctrl-alt-Fx. I simply meant that I tried various values of x that didn’t work. That was until it was reported to try F1.
ctrl-alt-F1 did work as I reported above.
tom kosvic