> On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 23:11, Adam F. Bogacki wrote: > > "Starting Gnome Display Manager: gdm. > > INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
That message from INIT might not be caused by gdm. # Format: # <id>:<runlevels>:<action>:<process> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 I think this is the line from /etc/inittab thats causing the respawn message, no idea why. When I have a problem with X, gdm keeps respawning X causing the screen to flash. I don't recall seeing the respawn message from init. (gdm is respawning X, not init, gdm isn't started by init, either) So either something is seriously wrong with your console, and getty can't open it, or its a normal message you get when X plays up, I don't know. Anyway... Try booting into single user mode (ie linux 1 at the lilo prompt) and do something like renaming the gdm symlink from S??gdm to K??gdm in /etc/rc2.d/ or you can use update-rc.d to do it. (I think update-rc.d is meant for packages to use, its a bit weird) Then, hopefully, you might be able to boot up normally and login to the console and test why X isn't working. ie: X -probeonly >/tmp/x.out 2>&1 less /tmp/x.out > Debian woody 2.2r2 with kernel 2.4.14 As someone pointed out to the list not long ago, you need to update some packages with non offical ones to run kernel 2.4 on debian 2.2. http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2002/January/msg00300.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
