From: malcolmlewis@cableone.net.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 20:33:45 -0500   
   bad sector  wrote:   
      
   > On 11/14/18 12:03 PM, Malcolm wrote:   
   >   
   > > systemctl set-default multi-user.target   
   > > systemctl reboot   
   > >   
   > > login, switch to root user   
   > >   
   > > systemctl isolate graphical.target   
   >   
   > I'd be curious to know exactly what the above accomplishes and how to   
   > reverse it if required. I now have a situation which may be more than   
   > what IT gave me: I cannot boot at all from the grub menu, it leads to   
   > a panic stop. But if I boot manually following a Cntrl-C, new kernel   
   > or the previous one, then I can log in as user and do startx with no   
   > further issues.   
   >   
   Hi   
   So in SysVinit multi-user is runlevel 3 graphical is runlevel 5   
      
   AFAIK init 3 and 5 still work.   
      
   The isolate is the same as startx/init 5, to switch back to console,   
   would use isolate multi-user.target which will shutdown the X server.   
      
      
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