NVidia Debian thread

[Michael Hipp]

C M Reinehr wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 January 2007 12:16, Ric Moore wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 11:29 -0600, C M Reinehr wrote:
>>> 	I wouldn't say that it ignores run levels, just that it has a slightly
>>> different way of organizing them (as it does many other facets of Linux).
>>> Run level 0 = full stop, run level 1 = single user, run level 2 =
>>> multi-user & run level 6 = reboot. IANAE but I think the only real
>>> difference, here, is that using run levels of 3, 4 or 5 is left to the
>>> discretion of the user. IIRC this is quite similar to COL except that COL
>>> didn't start the X-server until run level 3 or 4, but I could be
>>> mistaken.
>> Is there an LSB stance on this?? I'm used to runlevel 3 being text mode
>> and runlevel 5 being X and 6 for shutdown to reboot. Go figure. Ric
> 
> There is:
>  
> http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.1.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/runlevels.html
> 
>   0  halt
>   1  single user mode
>   2  multiuser with no network services exported
>   3  normal/full multiuser
>   4  reserved for local use, default is normal/full multiuser
>   5  multiuser with a display manager or equivalent
>   6  reboot
>   Note: These run levels were chosen as reflecting the most frequent existing 
> practice, and in the absence of other considerations, implementors are 
> strongly encouraged to follow this convention to provide consistency for 
> system administrators who need to work with multiple distributions.
> 
> It seems that, in general, Debian conforms with the LSB. From the Debian 
> Reference Manual:

I don't see how you can say that. On Debian systems 2-5 are identical where 
they are not in the LSB. Debian starts in RL2 and has *everything* running 
there, including the display manager. But that's not what the LSB seems to 
call for.

Caveat: I'm going mostly by what my Ubuntu systems do, I assume it's directly 
copied from Debian.

Michael