respawning too fast

[Ed_P]

Booting ISO Cinnamon 3.2.1 64-bit with grub2. Got the following error msg:

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INIT: Id "x1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.

I wait a few minutes then press Enter and it continued but I had to manually signon and start startx. Anyway to prevent this from happening? I don't have the problem booting the ISO with grub4dos.

[Bogomips]

^ Checked for a stale /tmp/.X0-lock?

[Ed_P]

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guest@porteus:~$ ls /tmp
google-chrome/  pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n/
guest@porteus:~$ 

[Bogomips]

^ ls -a /tmp?

[Ed_P]

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guest@porteus:~$ ls -a /tmp
./   .ICE-unix/  .X11-unix/  google-chrome/
../  .X0-lock    .esd-1000/  pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n/
guest@porteus:~$ 

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guest@porteus:~$ ls --help
Usage: /bin/ls [OPTION]... [FILE]...
List information about the FILEs (the current directory by default).
Sort entries alphabetically if none of -cftuvSUX nor --sort is specified.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
  -a, --all                  do not ignore entries starting with .

Interesting.

But the original error referenced "x1" not "X0".

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No "x1" here either.

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guest@porteus:~$ ls -a /mnt/live/memory/changes/tmp
./   .ICE-unix/  .X11-unix/  google-chrome/
../  .X0-lock    .esd-1000/  pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n/
guest@porteus:~$ ls -a /mnt/live/memory/images/changes/tmp
./   .ICE-unix/  .esd-1000/      pulse-PKdhtXMmr18n/
../  .X11-unix/  google-chrome/
guest@porteus:~$ 

[jssouza]

Hi Ed_P,

The Id x1 comes from the /etc/inittab file used by init when switching to runlevel 4 (X and the GUI).

# Default runlevel. (Do not set to 0 or 6)
id:4:initdefault:

...

# Runlevel 4 also starts /etc/rc.d/rc.4 to run a display manager for X.
# Display managers are preferred in this order: gdm, kdm, xdm
x1:4:respawn:/etc/rc.d/rc.4

[Ed_P]

Thanks jssouza for the explanation.

Fortunately the error appears to be a one time thing.

[donald]

Hi Ed
I have this too, 1 out of 10 boot up.
When i wait the 5 min. the system continues to boot normally.

[Ed_P]

When i wait the 5 min. the system continues to boot normally.

I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure I pressed the Enter key before the 5 minutes were up and the booting continued.


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A related posting: http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... 882#p53882