J Taylor wrote on Tue, Jun 05 2007 at 06:40 (-0500): > I just upgraded from FC6 to Fedora 7 on my laptop (x86_64). During start-up, > it stalls with the following message: > INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > > What do I need to do to resolve this? The init process (the first process which gets started on your machine after the kernel has booted) starts several other programs and watches them, for example getty which connects to the virtual consoles of the text login screens. If the program exits (eg. the user logs out), init restarts the program. However, if there is a bug/problem with the program right after its start that does not go away by restarting the program, this mechanisms leads to a continuous restart of the program. If init detects this, it stops respawning the program for some time, in your case 5 minutes. In your case the program labeled with 'x' respawns too fast. Check your /etc/inittab to see what program is started under the label 'x' (on my system: /etx/X11/prefdm). I assume the program is supposed to start the graphical login screen (xdm or similar), which fails for some reason (most probable cause: X configuration file damaged or graphics card not supported). Andreas. -- http://www.lysium.de/blog
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