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Re: [LUG] Runlevel 3 Terminal Weirdness

 

Simon Waters wrote:
> Keith Abraham wrote:
>   
>> It's no real problem but I'm not the world's greatest typist and trying to
>> correct typing errors is a b*****.
>>
>> Any ideas anyone?
>>     
>
> When in doubt try "<return>stty sane<return>" which should set the
> terminal characteristics to something sane.
>   
Alas I've already tried that. It does restore sanity but it only during 
the session.
If I go back to runlevel 5 and back again to runlevel 3 the problem returns.
> But I've no idea what caused it, coming from a SVR4 background I regard
> Linux runlevels as a waste of space, and don't use them for anything
> explicitly.
>
>
>   

I only use runlevel 3 to stop X during upgrades especially when there is 
an upgrade
to Xorg.

Keith


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