INIT: id "x" respawning too fast, disabled for 5 minutes

[Dennis King]

I just ran up2date, which downloaded a bunch of XFree86 RPM's. The
install process hung on me for some reason (minimal software running
at the time, I was working on a PHP/MySQL script while the updates
were running on a different desktop). I had to force quit up2date
because all my applications were hanging, I could hardly navigate
among windows, which redrew every 10 seconds. 

On reboot, the error message "INIT: id 'x' respawning too fast,
disabled for 5 minutes" now comes up. The GNOME GUI doesn't launch,
only the commannd line. I logged into the command line and ran rpm -i
/var/spool/up2date/XF*rpm as root to see if some packages had not
been installed, but there has been no changed. My hardward is an HP
Pavillion that is probably 4 years old now (sorry I'm not at home now
and can't provide the exact model number). I saw a similar bug in the
Redhat knowledgebase regarding 7.3, but there was no solution
offered, the user had had to reinstall 7.2, I think.

Any suggestions on getting my computer back? I'm afraid I'll have to
copy content to floppies and install something new. 

Thanks,

Dennis

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