[NTLUG:Discuss] What's up with this?

James L. Skidmore james at linux-guy.com
Wed Feb 21 15:08:08 CST 2001


Most likely someone has been mucking around with your /etc/inittab
file. I bet they added an entry for mgetty that conflicts with one of
the mingetty entries for your normal psuedo terminals.
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On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:15:41AM -0600, Carter B. Bennett wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have a Alpha 600Mhz PC running RH 6.0 for almost a year now, running good. We
> moved our computer room last weekend and ever sence then I am getting :
> 
> INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mgetty"
> 
> about 7 to 10 times, then a line that says:
> 
> INIT: Id "0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
> 
> Someone said it had something to do with the modem, so I powered down yanked
> the modem and rebooted the box and I'm still getting the sams thing.
> 
> I would love to get a fix for this, Thanks
> 



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