Recently my linux system had been restarted by someone while it was on. This seemed to screw everything up... the screen flickered for about 5 minutes, then there was a message saying:
According to var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running (1073819204),
but seems to have been murdered mysteriously.
INIT: Id "x" respawning to fast: disabled for 5 minutes

I was advised that X wasn't running and it might need to be reconfigured, which I did with Xconfigurator.

Now when I boot linux from my Lilo boot, it asks me what startlevel, I know 3 for non GUI and 5 for the graphical interface, but neither worked, in fact I entered number 0-5 and kept getting the same response: no more processes in this runlevel.

In addition at the Lilo boot I also tried:
Linux 3 and
Linux 5

to no avail. Pleeeaaasee help
Thanks

---Mike

did you create a emergency boot disk??

you might want to try using that to boot up normally and seeing from there fixing your problem.

please tell me it's not giving you a runlevel 9 error...

Try linux single init=/bin/sh rw .

Unfortunately this is my bosses computer, she did not create a boot disk.

I am not able to run at level 9 either ("no more processes on this runlevel").

I also tried the command that linuxcool suggested.

Unfortunately, it seems the only input I can give it is at the Lilo
boot and when it asks what runlevel. After that, it provides no other opportunities to give input.

Thanks for your help
--Mike

well, your going to need to create a boot disk or rescue disk, you can try from the installation disk, i know if your using redhat they have a rescue mode you can try.... or you can try with the tomsrtbt disk to boot into your system to fix any repairs... you can go here for the disk download: http://www.toms.net/rb/
or you can go to www.redhat.com or your distros site for downloadable rescue disks...etc.