Re: gnome problems - HELP PLEASE!

[Brian Sea <sea umr edu>]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 01:13:23PM -0600, valdes@hv.phys.lsu.edu wrote:
> 
> I'm running gnome with red hat linux 6.0...I get the following message on
> the screen  and gnome does not come up
> 
> according to /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running (process id) but
> seems to have been murdered mysteriously.
> INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
> 
> I've tried removing /var/run/gdm.pid  and still I'm getting the same
> problem...Any ideas??
> 
   This just means it's dying over and over again.. check the logs to 
gdm ( on my system they are in /etc/X11/gdm ).  That should give you some 
clues... 

   It might be pointing to the wrong X server(gdm is ), or the 
resolutions of X might be wrong... 


Hope this helps,

Brian Sea
sea@umr.edu