[CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

Wed Apr 8 10:36:05 UTC 2015
Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole at gmail.com>

On 2015-04-04, Bill Maltby (C4B)
<centos4bill at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-04-04 at 11:12 +0100, Nux! wrote:
>> 100% with Digimer here.  <snip>
>
>> All this energy should be put into contributing towards to the
>> project, testing, helping out community.
>
> Well, I used to agree. But when a bug report filed in December goes
> untouched entering April, which I don't recall happening prior to RH
> subsuming the project, it takes away impetus to ever file one again
> from lowly end users like me I think.
>
> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=7972

Thanks for drawing my attention to that bug. I encountered it the other
day after switching from runlevel 5 to 3 (and back again) on a CentOS
6.6 machine.

The purpose of the runlevel switch was to restart gdm. Is there a better
way?

-- 

Liam