Id " X " respawning too fast??

[Glynn Clements]

Alex Ngai wrote:

> This is my frist time posting messenge to this mailing list. I got a 
> question, I
> hope some of the experts on Linux would spend a few minutes answering
> my question.
> 
> I installed the latest Fedora Core 2 Linux, however I couldn't log into the
> GUI windows. While in the text-besd shell environment, I got this strange
> messenge every several minutes:
> 
> INIT: Id " X " respawning too fast: dusabled for 5 minutes

This just means that the X server fails to start.

I suggest switching to a runlevel which doesn't include X, then trying
to start X using "startx". Even if startx doesn't work, you should get
some error messages which provide clues as to why it doesn't work.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>