Hello all,
I just updated the fedora core with all it's new patches and now the machine seems to be hosed. On reboot, I get the
following message:
"Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes" - Any ideas? I have had nothing but problems with Fedora.
I can tell you what is happening, but not why it is happening. The above message refers to this line in /etc/inittab --
x:3:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
The app "prefdm" starts, then exits almost immediately. So the respawn part of the entry tells init to start it again. It starts, exits ... and so on. To keep continued respawns from typing up the system, init notices, stops the cycle, and logs it.
That's the "what". The "why" is probably some sort of problem with prefdm, whatever that is (some sort of X login app, similar to xdm or gdm, maybe?). Make sure it is actually present on the system, and that you can run it successfully from the command line. If it fails, notice why and fix it (since you just did an update, I'd wonder about a shared-library incompatibility, for example).
I confess I don't know why this particular failure would leave the machine "hosed" ... but then, "hosed" is not a problem description, really. I'd expect 6 terminals to be available on vt1 through vt6, for example, ready for logins. If you write again, please describe the actual problem you are experiencing, not just the message that si logged about a specific errant process.
I have no clue what is going on here. I tried to get the machine in run level 3, but I still can't get it to work.[deleted]
Here is a copy of the /etc/inittab file:
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