Re: init: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

[Mike McLean <mikem rtp gmail com>]

Graham Freeman <graham freeman cernio com> wrote:
> Any idea where this error message is coming from?
> 
>  From /var/log/messages:
> 
> Mar  3 23:29:24 communicate init: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled
> for 5 minutes

Most likely you are in runlevel 5 but X is not installed (or is failing to run).