INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly...

[Conor P. Cahill]

moore at forty2.enet.dec.com (Paul Moore) writes:
>Can someone help me with this problem when I boot up my ISC-based system. I get
>the following series of messages displayed on the terminal:
>    INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly. Check for possible errors
>    id: co "/etc/getty console console"

The proble is probably one of the following:

	1. /etc/getty is gone
	2. /etc/gettydefs is corrupted (or at least the console, vt01 and vt02
	   entries are trashed)
	3. /dev/console is gone or has the incorrect device numbers
	4. /unix is screwed up (I would only suspect this if you recently 
	   made a new unix, or suffered some sort of system crash)

Boot the system in single user mode (using the install disk) 
mount /dev/dsk/0s1 /mnt
cd /mnt and look around to see what is going on (Note that you will have
to prepend /mnt on to all the paths I specified above.
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