Re: doubts in INIT - while system booting up

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Hugo Mills wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:00:34AM -0800, sundara raman wrote:
>
> > 8) while system booting up, it shows the following
> > error
> >
> > INIT: Id "x" respawing too fast: disabled for 5
> > minutes
>
> It's not a kernel problem -- there's something broken in your X
> Windows configuration. xdm (or kdm or gdm) keeps trying to start and
> fails, and init is restarting it, and it fails...

I have recently had the same problem when I forgot to include some
driver in the kernel which was required by my X configuration.

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