Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: doubts in INIT - while system booting up | Date | Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:21:19 +0100 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Kasper Dupont <kasperd@daimi.au.dk> said: > Hugo Mills wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:00:34AM -0800, sundara raman wrote: > > > > > 8) while system booting up, it shows the following > > > error > > > > > > INIT: Id "x" respawing too fast: disabled for 5 > > > minutes > > > > It's not a kernel problem -- there's something broken in your X > > Windows configuration. xdm (or kdm or gdm) keeps trying to start and > > fails, and init is restarting it, and it fails... > > I have recently had the same problem when I forgot to include some > driver in the kernel which was required by my X configuration.
I've seen such problems too, caused by full /tmp -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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