Bug 4744

Summary:	Runlevel switch 3->5 not working
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Herbert Poetzl <herbert>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	dmorganec, herbert, mageia
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	initscripts	CVE:
Status comment:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	2120

Description Herbert Poetzl 2012-02-29 11:53:10 CET

Description of problem:
When switching from runlevel 5 (X11) to runlevel 3(multi user) and back, X11 doesn't get started.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
systemd-43-1.mga2.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ssh to a newly installed and configured system (gnome3 here)
2. telinit 3
3. telinit 5

alternatively 'systemctl isolate runlevel3.target' and 'systemctl isolate runlevel5.target' can be used.

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2012-03-01 15:33:51 CET

duplicate

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 4582 ***

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE

Comment 2 Herbert Poetzl 2012-03-01 15:37:08 CET

sorry, but that's a completely different issue, the 'service dm restart' hangs for 60 seconds but works, while in this case X11 doesn't start again, ever!

Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED
CC: (none) => herbert
Resolution: DUPLICATE => (none)

Comment 3 Manuel Hiebel 2012-03-01 15:53:53 CET

ah yes sirry wrong bug in my search list:/

CC: (none) => dmorganec, mageia
Blocks: (none) => 2120

Comment 4 D Morgan 2012-03-24 01:49:26 CET

is this bug still valid ?
if yes, is systemd-sysvinit installed ?

Comment 5 Colin Guthrie 2012-03-24 13:11:49 CET

Yeah I think this is still valid. I'm not sure it's a systemd-sysvinit problem.

One of the issues I've seen is that doing a normal graphical boot, issuing: "systemctl isolate multi-user.target" actually wipes out the dbus sockets...

I'll need to investigate.

Comment 6 Colin Guthrie 2012-03-24 20:54:47 CET

And the culprit: mandriva-clean-var-run-lock.service

This nukes all the files in /var/run and /var/lock. It's meant to do so on boot, but it happens whenever we switch runlevels.

I've got a fix that will be in the next initscripts package.

This file itself can disappear when we go to mga3 when /var/run will just be a symlink to /run (not sure about /var/lock but something similar will be done there too).

Comment 7 Colin Guthrie 2012-03-24 22:18:50 CET

OK, so should be fixed in latest initscripts.

Status: REOPENED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Source RPM: systemd-43-1.mga2.src.rpm => initscripts

Comment 8 Herbert Poetzl 2012-03-27 00:52:44 CEST

it has an odd 25 second delay when switching from 3->5 and it messes with the audio mixer settings when switching from 5->3 but at least it seems to work.