respawning too fast

[James McDonald]

Machiel Richards wrote:
>
> HI Everyone
>
> I need some advice on an issue that I have. As far as I can see on the 
> net this is a well known issue but I can?t seem to find my answers.
>
> I have installed an HP ML150 server with SLES 9.3 64 bit and also 
> downloaded all the necessary drivers from HP?s website and installed 
> accordingly.
>
> However after rebooting the server I started getting the following messge:
>
> INIT: ID ?X? (x = 1-6) respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
>
> On the net the forums suggest that I edit my xfree86config file and 
> check /etc/inittab in order to fix the problem as it may be caused by 
> an incorrect driver (most cases the display driver).
>
> However this error is in a loop and the server does not even give me a 
> command line login option in order to log in and look at the files.
>
> Any suggestions on how to fix this?
>
>
I'm not a SUSE user but generally if your X is respawning too fast and 
it is disabled then you should still be able to get a console login 
using CTRL+ALT+F(1-5).

Is SUSE 9.3 still using xfree? I know that if you run xorg -configure it 
will do a probe of your hardware and write a new config to 
/root/xorg.conf.new I'm not sure of the exact command for SLES.

If the above doesn't work then try Knoppix or a rescue disk to get into 
the config.