init: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

In most Linux distributions this means that the system is booting by default into runlevel 5, which is supposed to respawn (re-start again after it’s been exited) a gui login via x windows, kdm, gdm, or whatever, but the system can’t locate the program. As a result below logs will keep appearing on your /var/log/messages for every 5 minutes.

Feb 4 08:55:25 server init: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

However, “Id” can also indicate the absence or misconfiguration of another program, like mingetty, if init tries to respawn itself more than 10 times in 2 minutes.

Reason: You remove the “X Window System” and “GNOME Desktop Environment” but never modified the /etc/inittab.

Solution:

vi /etc/inittab

Change the initdefault id to 3 as below:

id:3:initdefault:

save and reboot your system


Or you may need to reinstall the “X Window System” and “GNOME Desktop Environment”.

yum groupinstall "X Window System"
yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"