Re: Shutting down to runlevel 1

Carl Turney <carl@boms.com.au> writes:

[telinit 1 consistently crashes in Ubuntu 14.04.1] Am giving them AFTER logging out of any GUI session, and Ctrl-Alt-F1-ing into a REAL TTY CLI.

As Chris observed, that distro defaults to upstart. The event is processed by /etc/init/rc.conf, which as at upstart 1.12.1-0ubuntu4 is not very interesting; the main thing it does it waggle plymouth, then run the sysvinit compat layer "/etc/init.d/rc 1". Try booting with "nosplash" to disable plymouth.