From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "rob.rice" Subject: Re: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 01:27:27 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40399D4F.6090306@fuse.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux newibe 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 > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs