'Respawning too fast'

[Mike Jang]

Hi Barry, 

On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 08:50, Barry Skidmore wrote:
> `init: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.'
> 
> I have seen lots of references to this problem on Google, but am still
> unsure how to proceed.  I have done a 'telinit 3' to get into run level
> 3.

It sounds like you have runlevel 5 as your default; this problem has
been known to happen if xfs (the font server, not the filesystem) isn't
running at runlevel 5 - or if your /tmp or /home directory partitions
are full.

(I'm assuming that you're able to login ok at runlevel 3)

Thanks,
Mike