Id " X " respawning too fast??
Glynn Clements
glynn at gclements.plus.com
Wed Nov 3 20:51:46 PST 2004
Alex Ngai wrote:
> This is my frist time posting messenge to this mailing list. I got a
> question, I
> hope some of the experts on Linux would spend a few minutes answering
> my question.
>
> I installed the latest Fedora Core 2 Linux, however I couldn't log into the
> GUI windows. While in the text-besd shell environment, I got this strange
> messenge every several minutes:
>
> INIT: Id " X " respawning too fast: dusabled for 5 minutes
This just means that the X server fails to start.
I suggest switching to a runlevel which doesn't include X, then trying
to start X using "startx". Even if startx doesn't work, you should get
some error messages which provide clues as to why it doesn't work.
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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
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