[OT-RH9] INIT Respawning Problem
Tommy Reynolds
Tommy.Reynolds at MegaCoder.com
Fri Feb 6 15:54:43 UTC 2004
Uttered "Don" <7mgte at earthlink.net>, spake thus:
> INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
> INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
> INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
> INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
>
> Now I am guessing the IDs represent either runlevels or virtual terminals
> (only alt-F1 and alt-F2 seem to do anything) and that the X server is
> somehow corrupted I cannot get XFree86 to start.
The "id" is the first field from the offending line in
"/etc/inittab".
> 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
> 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
> 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
> 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6
Each /dev/tty[3-6] is a virtual terminal implemented by the kernel
itself, so you _will_ have them. Make sure you have the correct
entries. Here are mine:
$ ls -l /dev/tty[3-6]
crw------- 1 root root 4, 3 Feb 6 09:05 /dev/tty3
crw------- 1 root root 4, 4 Feb 6 09:05 /dev/tty4
crw------- 1 root root 4, 5 Feb 6 09:05 /dev/tty5
crw------- 1 root root 4, 6 Feb 6 09:05 /dev/tty6
Make sure these haven't been deleted or corrupted. If so, restore
them using MAKEDEV. Do a "man MAKEDEV" to find out more.
> Some other suggested solutions refer to possible file corruption, but
> provide no information on identifying which files might be corrupt or how to
> restore them. If it is a file corruption problem, is the only solution to
> re-install?
See above.
> Any suggestions on where to look for a complete debugging guide/solution to
> this problem will be greatly appreciated!!
1) Never try to debug X11 in runlevel 5; you are correctly using
runlevel 3 for this.
2) Don't try to jimmie the X11 configuration scripts yet. Once INIT
has been mollified, try to reconfigure X11: this is the #1 trouble
shooting technique for X11 problems. Just do a:
# redhat-config-xfree86
and accept the defaults. Immediately try to:
# startx
and see what happens.
Cheers!
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