[SOLVED] Problem in boot: Id "x" respawning too fast

[dagger_0]

Hello all,

I have a Fedora distro installed in VirtualBox. It was installed from a live CD that works properly but when I run the distro from the hard disk I get this lines:

Starting HAL daemon:                                    [OK]
ircd: version hybrid - 7.2.2
ircd: pid 2666
ircd: running in background mode from /usr/local/ircd
INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

The last line of my /etc/inittab file is:

x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm

I've been doing changes like comment the last line of the file (happens the same more o less) and I know that if I change the init level to 3 I can load the distro but I would like doing in GUI mode.

I can supposed that is a problem for the ircd service but I do not know the way of solved that because I am new in linux!!. Any suggestions??

[MikeTbob]

Hello and Welcome.
Can you still continue loading and then login anyway or does it stop/restart? If you can login, try the startx command and post any errors or output you get.

startx

[dagger_0]

Hello and Welcome.
Can you still continue loading and then login anyway or does it stop/restart? If you can login, try the startx command and post any errors or output you get.

startx

Hello and thanks for your reply.

If I change the init mode to 3, I can load the distro. The results of the comand are:

Fatal server error:
no screens found

Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at htp://wiki.X.Org]X.Org Wiki - Home for help

Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.

XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
        after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

Mmmm, it doesn't sound very well .....

[MikeTbob]

And this happens even if you re-install? Did you check the CD/DVD after downloading? A bad burn can cause all kinds of grief.

[dagger_0]

And this happens even if you re-install? Did you check the CD/DVD after downloading? A bad burn can cause all kinds of grief.

It's an .iso file installed from the Hard disk over Virtualbox and I installed the system twice.

[MikeTbob]

Okay, did you verify that the download was not corrupted using the md5sums provided on the download site?

You can try to login and issue this command as root, see if it gets you anywhere.

system-config-display

Failing that, you can also try deleting the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, if there is one...reboot and it should create a new one.

You can also try to take a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log to find out what went wrong.

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

[dagger_0]

Okay, did you verify that the download was not corrupted using the md5sums provided on the download site?

You can try to login and issue this command as root, see if it gets you anywhere.

system-config-display

Failing that, you can also try deleting the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, if there is one...reboot and it should create a new one.

You can also try to take a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log to find out what went wrong.

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Hello again

Thanks for yours replies. I thought that there would be a problem with the services but you were right because the problem was the drivers of the display. At the end, I copied the xorg.file from the boot CD to my Hard Disk and it works!!

Thank you!