Not Starting CentOS 5.3

sks_kale · 09-25-2009, 09:27 PM

Hi,

I have CentOS 5.3. It was working very nice. Yesterday I installed weblogic 8.1 and postgreSQL. Now I get this message when I start CentOS.

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

If I wait for 5 minutes, the message repeats.

quanta · 09-25-2009, 10:21 PM

Can you boot to rescue mode? If can, have you tried to uninstall above packages?

tail -f /var/log/messages for more details.

saifkhan123 · 09-25-2009, 11:35 PM

boot from CentOS DVD and type the following command at the installation boot prompt:

Code:

# linux rescue

You are prompted to answer a few basic questions, including which language to use. It also prompts you to select where a valid rescue image is located.
now u will get a shell after some questions, now at shell type

Code:

# chroot /mnt/sysimage

This is useful to chroot if you need to run commands such as rpm that require your root partition to be mounted as /. To exit the chroot environment, type exit to return to the prompt.

Now you can troubleshoot the system, check /var/log/messages about what went wrong and than you can stop the problematic services at boot-time.
hope this will help

sks_kale · 09-26-2009, 03:14 PM

Thank you all for the help, but I did fresh install. I tried with linux rescue, but could not fix it because I am very new to linux.