[NTLUG:Discuss] Respawning error

[Fred James]

I have only ever run into this one on an old SVR3 system and the issue
there seemed to revolved around so called "smart" ports on a 16 port
ethernet card, and so it always involed some /dev/tty*.  A number of
things could kick it off, but the answer was usually to kill the PID.

Not sure any of that will help.

Cameron wrote:
> 
> * 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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