INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly...
Paul Slootman
slootman at dri.nl
Mon Apr 8 23:46:29 AEST 1991
In article <1991Apr8.102837.12050 at hollie.rdg.dec.com> 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"
[and a number of other inittab lines]
Ummm... Go to single user mode (or maintenance mode, depending on the
system). Check that
a) /etc/getty is there and has execute permission, or isn't damaged in
any other way
b) /etc/gettydefs is there and contains the entries used by the various
getty invocations, without errors (getty has a '-c file' option to
check a gettydefs-type file)
c) the devices are there, i.e. /dev/console, /dev/vt01, etc. and that
these devices are available (ports on an expansion IO module won't
be accessible if the module is disconnected or inoperational in
some other way; although the console is there, as you see some
messages; they might, however, be sent to /dev/syscon...)
In my experience these are the things to watch for. Hope this helps.
Paul.
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