On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, lee wrote:
> >
> >
> > I recently had this problem as the result of an improper shutdown. I
> > rebooted into runlevel 3
> >
> > LILO boot: linux 3
> >
> > then I logged in as root and deleted all the X related user files and
> > directories under /tmp. Then I changed to runlevel 5:
> >
> > telinit 5
> >
>
> i'll try that as i'm having that issue as well BUT ( and I think it might
> have been due to a friends improper shutdown of linux )
> in my case now i get the following after the os load most of the like
> linuxconf stuff near end of startup:::::
> ---------------------------------------------------
> INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes..
>
> and its repeats about every 5 minutes not allowing system to boot to
> desktop.....
>
> it is true I did alterations to many startup files (.Xsessions etc. that
> were mentioned at kde site to get kde2 up running alongside kde1) and
> possibly since I know little to nothing about the affect of altering these
> files properly that something went isn't quite right...........because I
> noticed at that site describing how to alter system to run both....that the
> author mentioned he wasn't completely sure about the alterations for redhat
> i believe.........
>
> any help appreciated
> lee
> --====
Is that the _exact_ error message you're getting? Check out the /etc/inittab
file for relevant entries. That's where the message is coming from.
If you still have any questions, please reply with an exact copy of the
message you're getting and a copy of the relevant line from your inittab file.
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