[wplug] X respawning too fast?

[techmike]

Nothing at all happens, just returns back to the prompt with no output to
the console..

-mike


-----Original Message-----
From: "Poyner, Brandon" <bpoyner at ccac.edu>
To: "General user list" <wplug at wplug.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 14:17:02 -0400
Subject: RE: [wplug] X respawning too fast?

> What happens if you run the command that init is trying?  For example
> in
> Fedora Core 2 run level 5 will   launch "/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon".
> Any time that program exits init will try to run it again.  If init
> detects that it's running a command repeatedly it will back off, as
> happened in your case.
> 
> # grep ^x: /etc/inittab
> x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
> 
> Brandon Poyner
> Network Engineer II
> CCAC - College Office
> 412-237-3086
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:mikeslists at access995.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 12:46 PM
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: [wplug] X respawning too fast?
> 
> 
> Anyone get this before on bootup?
> 
> "init: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes."
> 
> I can still login to the console..  StartX gives me the FWM..  
> 
> Lawst time this happened I just rebooted and it fixed itself..
> 
> 
> Anyone?
> 
> -Mike
> 
> 
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