Keith Antoine wrote: > I have just installed Mandrake 8.1 on a server for someone, but for the first > time I have had init problems on a clean install. It will not boot to kde and > in a console it stops with a flashing console login screen, the its stosp and > says:: > init id "x" respawning too fast, disable for 5 min
If you look in your /etc/inittab, you will see some lines containing the word 'respawn'. These lines list runlevels and programs to be run in those runlevels. The error you're getting is due to the fact that the command contained in some of those lines is exiting immediately with an error. Normally these are used for getty or xdm - programs that wait for you to log in. When your login session ends, the process dies and init respawns it (so you can log in again). Normally the command run here takes many minutes between init starting it and when it dies. If init runs a command that exits quickly (e.g. getty can't be found), the respawning causes a fast loop that sucks up cpu cycles. So init watches and if something is respawned too quickly, init stops respawning it so you have a chance to log in and do something. So, look at your inittab, try out the commands listed on the respawn lines, and fix the ones that don't work. Note that init's environment (especially $PATH) may be different than the one in your shell. Dave _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
