[BBLISA] Centos5 and X respawning problem

[David Allan]

I would back up your xorg.conf & recreate it with Xorg -configure which
should give you a working default configuration.  See if it'll go into
init 5 with that, although the fact that you can do startx sort of
suggests that the problem is elsewhere.

Dave

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Scott Ehrlich wrote:

> I just installed CentOS 5 on a Sony Vaio V505 (PCG-V505DC2P) and it worked
> perfectly.   A full yum update also worked fine.
>
> The user made various changes to it over the weekend, and how I'm faced with
> trying to undo endless "INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5
> minutes" error messages.
>
> I've spent half the day googling various answers.   init 5 will not do
> anything.  startx and xinit do work, but don't provide the proper window
> manager nor X window sessions.
>
> Now that I think of it, after the first yum update, the system defaulted to a
> tty, and I had to CNTL-Alt-F7 to switch to the X display.
>
> I also tried to install the ATI video driver, but that claimed an error in the
> end.
>
> I tried to comment out x:5:respawn... at #Run xdm in runlevel 5
> at the end of /etc/inittab then initiate init 5 from a tty session, but that
> didn't do any good.
>
> Ideas would be most appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott
>
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