Re: [CentOS] startx reboots my computer

On 11/26/06, Ted Miller ted-miller@att.net wrote:

What DOES happen: on a good run, I get the error message: /usr.../startx: fork: resource temporarily unavailable

My guess would be that, somewhere in /etc/profile or /etc/profile.d/*, or some similar startup file associated with your shell, is a command that starts either another shell, or another X session, or some similar thing. When you run "startx" it runs a shell, which runs that command, which runs another shell, and so on until you have no more available processes and/or RAM.

I suspect it's in /etc/profile et al. rather than a file in your home directory because you say it happens no matter which user starts X.