Am Mo, den 19.01.2004 schrieb paul um 00:04: > I have been using fedora core 1 with kernel 2.4.22-1.2140 athlon , with > great success for about two weeks . but today when I try and boot up the > machine I get the following message "INIT: id "x" respawning too > fast:disabled for 5 minutes" . Then the machine just sits there. Can anybody > help , I am new to Linux so idiot guide please. > #thanks paul >From /etc/inittab: # Run xdm in runlevel 5 x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon Seems your prefdm or what it is calling is damaged. Change the default init level to 3 in /etc/inittab and then check where the error lies. Are you a gnome user or KDE user? Did you change anything lately or did filesystem errors occur? Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999 PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416 14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653
