Re: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

["rob.rice" <rob.rice@fuse.net>]

Anna G. Zapata wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I just updated the fedora core with all it's new patches and now the machine seems to be hosed.  On reboot, I get the
> following message:
> 
> "Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes" - Any ideas?  I have had nothing but problems with Fedora.
> 
> I have no clue what is going on here.  I tried to get the machine in run level 3, but I still can't get it to work.
> Here is a copy of the /etc/inittab file:
> 
> # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
> #   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
> #   1 - Single user mode
> #   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
> #   3 - Full multiuser mode
> #   4 - unused
> #   5 - X11
> #   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
> #
> id:3:initdefault:
> 
> # System initialization.
> si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
> 
> l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
> l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1
> l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2
> l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3
> l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4
> l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5
> l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6
> 
> # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
> ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
> 
> # When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes
> # of power left.  Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now.
> # This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your
> # UPS connected and working correctly.
> pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down"
> 
> # If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it.
> pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled"
> 
> 
> # Run gettys in standard runlevels
> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
> 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
> 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
> 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
> 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
> 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6
> 
> # Run xdm in runlevel 5
> x:3:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
> 
> Anna Zapata
> UTS - Network Security
> 303.871.2009
> 
> 
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I had a problem like this and got it fixed by reinstalling the font server
the log files may tell you what X chocked on
so you could try reinstalling the X system

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