Net Llama wrote:
> Greetings,
> I built XFree86-4.2.0 from source this morning. I had been running
> XFree86-4.1.0 for several months.  THe build went swimmingly in about 45
> minutes.  
> However, something isn't quite right somewhere, and i can't figure out
> why at the moment.  If I attempt to switch to runlevel 5 from 3 X fails
> to start, and i got the ominous error on the console:
> id 'x' respawning too quickly, suspended for 5 minutes
> 
> However, if i simply do a 'startx' at the console, X fires up without a
> single problem for any user (root & others).  In fact, i'm typing this
> in Mozilla on the afflicted box right now.
> 
> So, my best guess is that something wacky is going on with gdm.  BTW,
> this is box is running a very heavily altered version of Redhat.  
> 
> To add a few more data points, I looked in /var/log/XFree86.0.log and
> there were no errors at all.  I looked at /var/log/messages, and there
> are no clues either.
> 
> 
> Anyone have any ideas on where I can poke around?
> 

XF86Config-4 or XF86Config
Could it be a font problem?

Tim

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