I just ran up2date, which downloaded a bunch of XFree86 RPM's. The install process hung on me for some reason (minimal software running at the time, I was working on a PHP/MySQL script while the updates were running on a different desktop). I had to force quit up2date because all my applications were hanging, I could hardly navigate among windows, which redrew every 10 seconds. On reboot, the error message "INIT: id 'x' respawning too fast, disabled for 5 minutes" now comes up. The GNOME GUI doesn't launch, only the commannd line. I logged into the command line and ran rpm -i /var/spool/up2date/XF*rpm as root to see if some packages had not been installed, but there has been no changed. My hardward is an HP Pavillion that is probably 4 years old now (sorry I'm not at home now and can't provide the exact model number). I saw a similar bug in the Redhat knowledgebase regarding 7.3, but there was no solution offered, the user had had to reinstall 7.2, I think. Any suggestions on getting my computer back? I'm afraid I'll have to copy content to floppies and install something new. Thanks, Dennis __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you?re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com
