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"Haydn Lwe" <l3069818@student.anu.edu.au> writes:

> Hi
> I've run into trouble  - when I start up my computer I am getting the
> error:
> 
> INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for five minutes.
> 
> I can't figure out what is causing the problem. If someone has an up and
> working inittab which runs xdm in the default runlevel.....
> 
> I still have an up and running xdm which seems to work fine (everything
> works fine) this dang message every five minutes.

It would help to know what you actually have in your inittab and in
the relevant files in ``/usr/X11R6/X11/lib/xdm/''

For normal xdm login (no chooser) I have this in ``/etc/inittab'':
    x1:45:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc.4

Note the use of ``wait''.   Refer to man inittab

/etc/rc.d/rc.4:
    #! /bin/sh
    # rc.4  This file is executed by init(8) when the system is being
    #	    initialized for run level 4 (XDM)
    # Tell the viewers what's going to happen...
    echo "Starting up the X Window System V.11 R.6..."
    
    # Call the "xdm" program.
    exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon
    # All done.

/usr/X11/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers:
    :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16

Hope this helps
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