respawning too fast

[Jerry McBride]

On Tuesday 03 July 2007 05:06:55 am 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.
>
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>             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.
>
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>             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).
>
>
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>             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.
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>             Any suggestions on how to fix this?
>


If you can't call up a console... reboot into single user mode... hopefully 
you're using grub (never touched suse...) . After rebooting, remount as rw, 
change init 5 to init 3 in /etc/inittab... sort out  your xserver problems 
then re-edit /etc/inittab so you're back to init 5...




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