rh7.2 starts wine in runlevel 3!

[Dan Kegel]

lawson_whitney at juno.com wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, James Juran wrote:
> 
> > Dan Kegel wrote:
> > >
> > > installing the wine rpm that comes with red hat 7.2
> > > works -- unless you switch to runlevel 3!  Then the
> > > wine startup script runs, and fails.
> > >
> > > Since wine depends on X, it should only run in
> > > runlevel 5!
> >
> > Since that would be a problem with Red Hat's packaging, it should be
> > reported at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla .
> 
> Why is it a problem at all?  You can run X at runlevel 3 with any distro
> I know of, if you want to, and if you know how.  (hint:  try startx, and
> if that doesn't work, try xinit). 

It's a problem because /sbin/telinit 3 hangs.
Requiring X at runlevel 3 is a violation of the LSB
http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/refspecs/LSB_1.0.0/gLSB/runlevels.html

> Wine will run without X, too, if you
> can find an app with no GUI, and change "GraphicsDriver" to =
> "ttydrv" in ~/.wine/config

Yes, I use that sometimes.  Perhaps rh's init script for wineserver
should start wineserver that way at runlevel 3.  Or does it make
sense to run wineserver at all from init?

- Dan