respawning to fast: disabled for 5 minutes

[willyfoobar]

After Bootup of my ydl6.2 on the PS3
I get this message all 5 minutes:

INIT: Id "x": respawing too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

does anybody know where this glitch comes from?
Yours,
willy

[willyfoobar]

I figured out a possible reason.

when I look in
/etc/inittab

there is an entry at the end :
=======================================
# run xdm in runlevel 5
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

====================================

following the manpages for "inittab" , the id (here "x")
should have at least two letters?!!!!


Can anybody help me with this

[ppietro]

I figured out a possible reason.

when I look in
/etc/inittab

there is an entry at the end :
=======================================
# run xdm in runlevel 5
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

====================================

following the manpages for "inittab" , the id (here "x")
should have at least two letters?!!!!


Can anybody help me with this

No - that's not the reason. That is the correct syntax for /etc/inittab for YDL. (It definitely matches mine, anyway.)

When you get the "respawn too fast" message, it generally means that X Windows is broken. Were you editing xorg.conf, by any chance? Or Adding/Removing X11 components?

You can get around it temporarily by switching to text only, and bypassing the GUI. That will get rid of the message - but you won't have graphics. Edit /etc/inittab, and change this line:

id:5:initdefault:

to

id:3:initdefault:

X Windows will print error messages if it can't start - you might be able to figure out why X is unhappy. Take a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see if that has a reason.

Cheers,
Paul

[willyfoobar]

Hello,

The problem is not that the XServer is not working.
the command >startx works without any problem.
It starts the enlightment Server.

But it seems that the command
/etc/X11/prefdm ....

cannot find any display manager.

The first problem looking at /etc/X11/prefdm
the environment variable DISPLAYMANAGER is not set
(this should happen in /etc/sysconfig/desktop)

The second thing is that in my configuration, no GUI is working.

I cannot start pirut.
which package do I have to install using yum
to pull me out of the "mud".

[ppietro]

The problem is not that the XServer is not working.
the command >startx works without any problem.
It starts the enlightment Server.

The second thing is that in my configuration, no GUI is working.

This is at cross purposes. Startx should start X Windows with Enlightenment - that would be your GUI. Yet, you state no GUI is working. Do you mean the GUI Login? Can you explain further? I'm sorry - I just can't follow your logic here.

Right now, it sounds like you're missing key pieces of X Windows, Gnome and/or Enlightenment. Did you try uninstalling any of these pieces? Did you not install them during setup? Did another software package update key YDL libraries?

Generally, unless you've been editing things, randomly removing software, or have had catastrophic system crashes, you shouldn't run into the issues you're describing.

Remember that YDL is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, not Fedora. Loading Fedora software and dependencies can overwrite key RHEL libraries, rendering your system unusable. That's why we have to run protectbase when we use the Fedora repositories - this is endemic to all RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux/YDL 6.x installations. RHEL lags about 3 versions behind Fedora - the current RHEL release corresponds to Fedora Core 6 or so.

Are you trying to enable graphics from a text installation, perhaps? In that case, I'd use YUM to make sure GDM is installed. That's YDL's default XDMCP/GUI Login manager. What you're describing might happen if GDM isn't installed.

Cheers,
Paul