Re: respawning error in Red Hat 7.1

[Abhinav Gautam <gautamabhinav yahoo com>]

Stuart,

I have compared the inittab file to another server which works.
There doesn't seem to be any problem/typo. It is exactly the
same. I called up Dell and they were unable to help me. Is there
anything else I might try. 

Thanks,
-abhinav


--- Stuart Sears <stuart sjsears com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 Feb 2004 15:29, Abhinav Gautam wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > We have a Red Hat 7.1 i686 running on a Dell PowerApp web
> 120.
> > We are getting the respawning error again and again. We have
> > looked through the /etc/inittab (which is running mingetty),
> but
> > can't find a solution. By default the init process is 3. We
> have
> > changed that to 5, but to no avail. We don't get the log in
> > prompt. Is there any way to solve this. Any help will be
> really
> > appreciated.
> >
> > This is the exact error:
> > 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
> 
> the only thing I have seen cause this is a missing
> id:3:initdefault line (or a mistyped one) in /etc/inittab
> 
> just my 5p worth
> 
> Stuart
> 
> 
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