problems booting up

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 19.01.2004 schrieb paul um 00:04:
> I have been using fedora core 1 with kernel 2.4.22-1.2140 athlon , with
> great success for about two weeks . but today when I try and boot up the
> machine I get the following message "INIT: id "x" respawning too
> fast:disabled for 5 minutes" . Then the machine just sits there. Can anybody
> help , I am new to Linux so idiot guide please.
> #thanks paul

>From /etc/inittab:

# Run xdm in runlevel 5
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon

Seems your prefdm or what it is calling is damaged. Change the default
init level to 3 in /etc/inittab and then check where the error lies.
Are you a gnome user or KDE user? Did you change anything lately or did
filesystem errors occur?

Alexander


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