Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:44:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:44:37 -0500 Received: from daimi.au.dk ([130.225.16.1]:30926 "EHLO daimi.au.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:44:36 -0500 Message-ID: <3E399EEE.407D5B6@daimi.au.dk> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 22:53:50 +0100 From: Kasper Dupont Organization: daimi.au.dk X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-19.7.xsmp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hugo Mills CC: sundara raman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: doubts in INIT - while system booting up References: <20030126170034.30209.qmail@web20507.mail.yahoo.com> <20030126172837.GA1196@carfax.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Kasper Dupont -- der bruger for meget tid p? usenet. For sending spam use mailto:aaarep@daimi.au.dk for(_=52;_;(_%5)||(_/=5),(_%5)&&(_-=2))putchar(_); - 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/