'Respawning too fast'

[Mott, William]

  Below is good advice.  I had the same thing happen to me but did not
  want to re-install for many reasons.

  My fix:

  1)  Mount each of the 3 installation CDs and search Fedora/RPMs directories
    for XFree86*

  2)  rpm -i Xfree*    (from each CD)

  3)  rpm -i xfs  (the fonts)

    When I did the steps 1 and 2 and rebooted I was able to get my
   Xwindows back  (Konsole).  However ,the windows text was missing
   (ie,  request for "Username", "Password", etc.)  I logged in blindly
   and clicked on the "up2date"  icon and though unable to read any text
   was able to run "up2date" again blindly (literally a shot in the dark)
   and it finished the install.  Rebooted, and everything was fine !

   Hope this helps.

   Good Luck

   Bill Mott
   N.J. State Treasury

  

-----Original Message-----
From: jludwig [mailto:wralphie at comcast.net]
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 10:08 AM
To: skidmore at worldvenue.org; For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: 'Respawning too fast'


This happens X crashes and tries to respawn (restart). This usually
indicates a corrupted or missing file(s).

I believe you will have to rerun up2date in init 3 or totally reload
clean if that doesn't work.

Wait for other advice!!

Wisdom is found in the council of many.
-- 
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>


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