On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:23:32PM +1100, Adam F. Bogacki wrote: > Hi, > I recently installed kernel 2.4.14 on hdb, fixed up a minor LILO > problem - > and for a while it worked. I was impressed with the boot speed and the > number of > drivers... > > Yesterday, however, when I tried to boot up it worked until gdm and I > received the following messages: > > "Starting Gnome Display Manager: gdm. > INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes. > INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes. > INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes. > INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes." > > and so on. > > I have unsuccessfully tried to boot in via disk and CD-ROM but I always > get more of the above. > > How do I fix this ? > > Adam Bogacki, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, have you checked your /etc/inittab? I don't know the connection between gdm and that, but it happened to me when I incidentally changed a value in it. Have a look at it -- here's a line from mine (default): # <id>:<runlevels>:<action>:<process> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 When I changed the value of the fore-last argument, say forgot a zero, I got that message and one tty was unusable. Maybe it helps, andrej
