INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

Antonio Olivares schrieb:
> Dear all,
>
> upon starting up two of my machines, I get the message 
>
> INIT:  Id "x" respawning too fast:  disabled for 5 minutes 
>
> What should I do to get it fixed?

i have selinux in permissive mode.
i saw this warning on "tty1" while  `yum update`  and ca. 5 minutes i 
was switched to gdm.

can you boot into runlevel 3 and evtl. reinstall or update gdm ?


i guess that this has something to do with the gdm update. search for 
"Nov 10 11:36:44"

# grep -2 respawning /var/log/messages
Nov 10 11:36:44 localhost kernel: audit(1194691004.988:20): user 
pid=2906 uid=81 auid=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:system_dbusd_t:s0 
msg='avc:  denied  { acquire_svc } for service=org.gnome.DisplayManager 
spid=5014 scontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 
tcontext=system_u:system_r:system_dbusd_t:s0 tclass=dbus
Nov 10 11:36:44 localhost kernel: : exe="/bin/dbus-daemon" (sauid=81, 
hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=?)'
Nov 10 11:36:45 localhost init: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 
5 minutes
Nov 10 11:37:00 localhost yum: Updated: gnome-screensaver - 
2.20.0-9.fc9.1.i386
Nov 10 11:37:09 localhost yum: Updated: gtk-nodoka-engine - 0.6-5.fc9.i386


# grep -2 gdm /var/log/yum.log
Nov 10 11:36:39 Updated: gimp - 2:2.4.1-1.fc9.i386
Nov 10 11:36:39 Updated: gnome-vfs2-smb - 2.20.0-4.fc9.i386
Nov 10 11:36:44 Updated: gdm - 1:2.21.1-0.2007.10.30.1.fc9.i386
Nov 10 11:37:00 Updated: gnome-screensaver - 2.20.0-9.fc9.1.i386
Nov 10 11:37:09 Updated: gtk-nodoka-engine - 0.6-5.fc9.i386
--
Nov 10 13:17:44 Updated: sysstat - 8.0.2-3.fc9.i386
Nov 10 13:17:50 Updated: policycoreutils - 2.0.31-14.fc9.i386
Nov 10 13:18:00 Updated: gdm - 1:2.21.2-0.2007.11.09.1.fc9.i386
Nov 10 13:18:03 Updated: ppp - 2.4.4-3.i386
Nov 10 13:18:03 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-mouse - 1.2.3-2.fc9.i386


# grep  dbus /var/log/yum.log
Nov 10 11:12:33 Updated: dbus-glib - 0.74-1.fc9.i386
Nov 10 11:14:07 Updated: dbus-python - 0.82.0-3.fc9.i386
Nov 10 11:55:09 Updated: ndesk-dbus - 0.5.2-12.fc9.i386

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shrek-m