Hi, I upgrade from Fedora 6 to 7, but i get this message while logging:

the message appear with all the virtual terminals 1-6 and i cant login directly to the system, "init: id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes"

I tried also to login via SSH but it close the connection after i enter the login password.

I think it's caused by AIGLX (I have berly installed), I got this warning message in Xorg.0.log


any idea !!

You have upper case X in your error but lower case x as the ID for the prefdm or is that a typo in the error?

Assuming it is a typo you should change the "respawn" to "off" on the prefdm line in /etc/inittab then run init q to reread it. This will keep it from "respawning too rapidly" and give you a chance to troubleshoot the issue.


respawn means to restart every time it dies. respawning too rapidly usually means it dies every time it starts.

prefdm deals with your preferred windows manager so you're likely right that the issue has to do with starting X.

By the way prefdm is a shell script so you can examine it to see what it is doing.

What happens if you run "/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon" from the command line?

What happens if your "startx" from the command line?

aha, Thanks jlightner I got the idea.

I recover my files and did a fresh install for fedora 7, its working fine now.

I think the problem from berly, I install it on Fedora 6, but i didn't choose it from the fedora 7 packages to be upgraded. Brely came with Fedora 7 CD.

Thanks for your reply.