systems can't be logged in with errors on screen "INIT: ID "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes"
Issue
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System can not be logged in. There are many lines of errors printed on the screen:
INIT: ID "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
On the screen it also displays:
INIT: cannot execute "/etc/rc.d/rc"
And:
INIT: cannot execute "/etc/X11/prefdm"
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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