Id X respawning for 5 minutes

Richard Hally rhally at mindspring.com
Tue Feb 12 19:38:50 UTC 2008


Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> after applying today's rawhide updates 20080212, 
> X fails to load successfully.  
> 
> Init: id X respawning for 5 minutes 
> error shows up.  I press enter and login successfully
> and type startx and all is well.  
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Antonio 
> 
> 
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It's a SELinux problem. If you boot with 'enforcing=0' added to the kernel line 
in grub, X starts normally.
Setroubleshoot shows that there are problems with DBus.
The correct response is to file a bug against SELinux.

HTH
Richard




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