I tried installing Sybase ASE 12.5 for learning purposes, as root on my system running RH8.

When I re-logged in after the installation X server doesnt startup and I am able to login only with the text mode, with the following msg.

Init: Id 'x' respawning too fast, restart after 5 minutes.

During startup couple of services ( sshd and xfs) failed with the following msgs.

Starting service sshd - failed
Shared library "libkrb5.so.3". Cannot open shared object file. No such file or directory.

Starting service xfs - failed
Shared library "libxfont.so.1". Cannot open shared object file. No such file or directory.

Being new to Linux, dont know how to fix this. Any help appreciated to correct this issue.

Many Thanks
Manoj

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Running Win me, Win 2000 and RH8 on a 1.7 Ghz Dell Dimension 8100

libkrb5.so.3 is provided by the krb5-libs-x.x.x package, and libxfont.so.1 is provided by XFree86-libs-x.x.x package.
so I would suggest you try reinstalling those packages.

To stop the respawning too fast error you'll need to tell linux to boot into init level 3 instead of 5. You can edit /etc/inittab and change initdefault to 3 or you can just type linux 3 at the lilo boot prompt.