respawning too fast

[Ed Cogburn]

Jack wrote:

> Trying to boot up with the latest Kubuntu Live CD.
> 
> everything ok thr;ough "checking Battery"
> 
> then I get "ID # respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes".
> 
> This continues on changing order (1,2,3,5,6,4) (2,4,5,63,1) and
> continues to do this.  I let it run over an hour.  It never used 1, 2
> , 3, 4, 5, 6.  Don't know if that means anything.
> 
> I downloaded the iso again and the same results.  Originally it would
> not boot at all (I used Ahead Nero 6.1)  This; had happened with many
> distros of linux so I decided to try Ashampoo and it worked with Klax
> quite well but with Kubuntu it booted up to the respawning item.  I
> have a disk of the latest Ubuntu Live CD and it works fine. I want the
> KDE Destop system therefor I want to try Kubuntu.


Cant't help with the respawning, but if the Ubuntu Live CD works for you
just use that to install a "server-only" Ubuntu system, then when that is
installed and net access is working, use apt to go to kubuntu with "apt-get
install kubuntu-desktop".  The Kubuntu CD makes it easy, but you don't
actually need it to get kubuntu up and running.  You can install kubuntu on
top of a base ubuntu system.  In fact, if space is not a problem, you can
actually have both installed simultaneously, they aren't mutually
exclusive.