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From: psfales@ihlpe.ATT.COM (Pete Fales)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: 3B2 won't go to init 1.  Help.
Message-ID: <2442@ihlpe.ATT.COM>
Date: 8 Jan 88 14:59:37 GMT
References: <69@mybest.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <69@mybest.UUCP>, paddock@mybest.UUCP (Steve Paddock) writes:
> A 3B2/310 (at System V release 3.0) that I do some work for
> decided it doesn't want to go to single user.  When instructed to
> go single user, either via init 1 or shutdown -y -g0 -i1 or the equivalent
> using init S or s, it goes into a loop where it asks me what run state I
> want to go to.  


The only time I have seen something similar to this is when I changed
root's default shell to /usr/bin/ksh.  Of course, in single user mode
/usr is not mounted so the shell can't be executed and you get message
asking for a run state.  

Just a thought.

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