[wplug] X respawning too fast?

[Poyner, Brandon]

What distribution are you using?  If it's Redhat/Fedora you should have
a file /etc/sysconfig/desktop that defines your preferred display
manager (gnome, kde, or xdm).  If that file is missing or doesn't have a
correct DISPLAYMANAGER defined then /etc/X11/prefdm will exit without
doing anything.  You could also try running gdm, kde, or xdm direct from
the command line.  That's all that prefdm really does anyway, find your
preferred manager and start it.

Brandon Poyner
Network Engineer II
CCAC - College Office
412-237-3086


-----Original Message-----
From: techmike [mailto:mikeslists at access995.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 2:40 PM
To: General user list
Subject: RE: [wplug] X respawning too fast?


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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