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On Tuesday 10 December 2002 09:14, Bev Broadhurst wrote:
> Red Hat 7.3 on several partitions on the first drive and everything seemed
> to go fine untill I rebooted again.
so it booted up once just fine after the install?
>This distro got just about all the way
> to starting X and then the screen kept flickering and eventually I got the
> following message. INIT: Id "X" respawning too fast.
> disabled for 5 minutes.
> After 5 minutes this was repeated.
for those wondering what this is (e.g. what follows isn't meant for you gurus
=): this is what happens when you X server starts crashing repeatedly. in
runlevel 5 (GUI on boot) if the server exits (including crashes) it just
restarts (or, respawns in inittab lingo). to prevent this from permenantly
locking your system in a constant rotation of crash-respawn-crash-respawn, if
it happens a certain number of times in a row, the OS will stop the
respawning for some minutes (usually 5) to give you a chance to intervene.
> Does anybody have any ideas for me? Thanks in advance.
sounds like an X misconfiguration. try booting into runlevel 3 (type "linux 3"
at the lilo prompt) and run the x configuration tool ...
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Aaron J. Seigo
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