> 1. respawning? (Wendall Williams) > Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 14:38:14 -0800 > From: Wendall Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: respawning? > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hello All- > > Just started using RH7.1 on a P4 2.4GHZ, seagate 60gig. Brand new everything. > After the installation procedure and reboot, I get the RH splash screen > (control x for text, which I don't select) it goes through a long list with > green "ok"'s, then to a black screen with version numbers and localhost login: > > At list point the screen starts to flash. Eventually it stops and says: > > INIT: Id "X" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > localhost login: > > Any ideas?
Check out "man xinit". (You can do this from a text-only session). IIRC this has a description of the various files that X will look for during it's start-up phase. There are quite a few, both system files and personal files. And any of those can call other files. It sounds like you have a loop going on, in which one of the X start-up files tries to initialize another X session. Can you successfully log in at the "localhost login:" prompt? And if so, do you end up in an X session, or just in a text terminal? Another thing to peek at is the /var/log/XFree* log file(s). You might get some hints there. Regards, Jim _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
