systems can't be logged in with errors on screen "INIT: ID "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes"

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Issue

  • 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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