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

Mott, William William.Mott at treas.state.nj.us
Wed Mar 10 14:43:21 UTC 2004


  Hello Dennis,

    I had this exact same problem on a newer HP Pavilion.  Up2date hung up the
  machine and I had to cycle power.  Then I got the same error you did.  In my 
  case I am running Fedora Core 1 which I installed from 3 CDs made from a 
  Fedora mirror site.  At the system console I examined all 3 CDs for anything
  X related.  I found lots of Xfree86 rpms on each CD.  So I simply mounted each
  CD, went into the /cd/Fedora/RPM directories, and did something like:
  $
   $rpm -i X*.rpm

   I got some media errors on the third CD, and some complained that the package
   was already installed. Upon rebooting,  I did get something of an X window
   setup.  I was running KDE, which came up, but there was no text asking for
   Login or Password.  I logged in anyway and was able to get some menus to 
   run, but was still missing text/fonts in some menus. Too weird. Being lost
   now,  I decided to try up2date again, even though I couldn't read the gui.

   Once it finished, I rebooted and KDE came back fine.

   I hope this helps.

    Bill Mott
    Systems Administrator
    Office of Treasury Technology
    New Jersey State Treasury
    609-943-4685	

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis King [mailto:d_r_king at yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 4:07 PM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: INIT: id "x" respawning too fast, disabled for 5 minutes


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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