[NTLUG:Discuss] Respawning error

[Cameron]

* 1dmm9671 at unixstew.tstc.edu [2001.06.02 07:18]:
: I am getting the following error when I try to boot my Mandrake 8.0 box.
: 
: INIT: ID "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
: INIT: ID "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
: INIT: ID "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
: INIT: ID "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
: INIT: ID "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
: INIT: ID "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
: 
: I then get an error stating that autologin has opened a session by root,
: the lock file could not be opened in /var/lock/console/username and that
: console access will be disallowed.  This message repeats about 20 times
: and then goes back to the INIT: ID message and repeats again...ad
: infinitum.
: 
: Question 1.  How do I fix this?

Not sure...  :-/

: Question 2.  What is causing this?

Look in /etc/inittab for a line with :respawn: in it.  I seem to have
had this problem once upon a time when I screwed with that file.  Did
you do any package updates recently that would effect that file?
-- 
cameron
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