On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 04:59:36PM -0300, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > > My new installed RHL 8.0 system was configured > to login using gdm. But, except for the first > time the system was started, I was unable to > run the X Window System. After system > initialization, I get the message telling > me that > > INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > > and after 5 five minutes the message repeats > on my Linux console, periodically. > > When changed from the graphical login to the > text login, and restarting X manualy with > startx, the problem does not appear. > > Any clues on what is going on and how to > solve the problem? I have conducted some tests: # cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop DESKTOP="GNOME" # /etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon # echo $? 2 # /usr/bin/gdm -nodaemon /usr/bin/gdm: line 175: `mc-transparent-set': not a valid identifier # echo $? 2 # sh /usr/bin/gdm -nodaemon /usr/bin/gdm: line 175: `mc-transparent-set': not a valid identifier # echo $? 2 # ls -l /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 1 18:10 /bin/sh -> bash* # bash /usr/bin/gdm -nodaemon The last command succeeded. Conlusion: it does make a difference if the /usr/bin/gdm script is started with /bin/sh or /bin/bash, although /bin/sh is a symbolic link to /bin/bash. Editing the script /usr/bin/gdm and changing the first line, which reads #!/bin/sh to #!/bin/bash and running # /usr/bin/gdm -nodaemon also succeeds. Is there any reason for me seeing this behaviour in my RHL 8.0 box? Is anybody else seeing this? I remember seeing a report of this error in the limbo-list when (null) was being tested, but no satisfactory solution. Any clues? Romildo -- Prof. José Romildo Malaquias romildo@uber.com.br Departamento de Computação malaquias@iceb.ufop.br Univ. Federal de Ouro Preto http://uber.com.br/romildo -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
