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To: Kasper Dupont <kasperd@daimi.au.dk>
cc: Hugo Mills <hugo-lkml@carfax.org.uk>,
       sundara raman <sundararamand@yahoo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       brand@eeyore.valparaiso.cl
Subject: Re: doubts in INIT - while system booting up 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Jan 2003 22:53:50 +0100."
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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:21:19 +0100
From: Horst von Brand <brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
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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
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