On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 10:26, Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés wrote:

Hi:

When a machine, redhat 7.2, that is our gateway, gets booted it shows:

init respawning to fast

and it doesnt get up to runlevel 5

Probably /etc/inittab got corrupted, right?

What else could it be?

Thanks, Raul

No, the system is trying to start the X Server, and it cannot initialize. Since the system is set to respawn the X server automagically upon death, it's going like this: Boot Up System Spawn X Server --X Server Dies a Horrible Death-- Spawn X Server --X Server Dies a Horrible Death-- Spawn X Server --X Server Dies a Horrible Death-- Spawn X Server --X Server Dies a Horrible Death-- Spawn X Server --X Server Dies a Horrible Death-- Spawn X Server System gives up trying to start the X Server. So check your X configuration -- make sure that you can start X with the "startx" command at the shell prompt. Once you get that working, then try the GUI login. Just as an aside, you might want to rethink running X on your gateway.. if this is just a server machine, X is just sitting there wasting resources that could otherwise be put to better use. Good luck, Steven