Uttered "Don" <7mgte@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, spake thus: > INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes. > INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes. > INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes. > INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes. > > Now I am guessing the IDs represent either runlevels or virtual terminals > (only alt-F1 and alt-F2 seem to do anything) and that the X server is > somehow corrupted I cannot get XFree86 to start. The "id" is the first field from the offending line in "/etc/inittab". > 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3 > 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4 > 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5 > 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6 Each /dev/tty[3-6] is a virtual terminal implemented by the kernel itself, so you _will_ have them. Make sure you have the correct entries. Here are mine: $ ls -l /dev/tty[3-6] crw------- 1 root root 4, 3 Feb 6 09:05 /dev/tty3 crw------- 1 root root 4, 4 Feb 6 09:05 /dev/tty4 crw------- 1 root root 4, 5 Feb 6 09:05 /dev/tty5 crw------- 1 root root 4, 6 Feb 6 09:05 /dev/tty6 Make sure these haven't been deleted or corrupted. If so, restore them using MAKEDEV. Do a "man MAKEDEV" to find out more. > Some other suggested solutions refer to possible file corruption, but > provide no information on identifying which files might be corrupt or how to > restore them. If it is a file corruption problem, is the only solution to > re-install? See above. > Any suggestions on where to look for a complete debugging guide/solution to > this problem will be greatly appreciated!! 1) Never try to debug X11 in runlevel 5; you are correctly using runlevel 3 for this. 2) Don't try to jimmie the X11 configuration scripts yet. Once INIT has been mollified, try to reconfigure X11: this is the #1 trouble shooting technique for X11 problems. Just do a: # redhat-config-xfree86 and accept the defaults. Immediately try to: # startx and see what happens. Cheers!
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