[K12OSN] "respawning too fast" in log files

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 10:11, Petre Scheie wrote:
> I'm seeing a bunch of this in /var/log/messages:
> 
> ws220.ltsp init: Id "s2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> Mar 10 10:05:55 ws220.ltsp init: Id "s4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> Mar 10 10:05:55 ws220.ltsp init: Id "s5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> Mar 10 10:05:56 ws220.ltsp init: Id "s3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> Mar 10 10:05:56 ws220.ltsp init: Id "s8" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> Mar 10 10:05:57 ws220.ltsp init: Id "s7" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> Mar 10 10:05:57 ws220.ltsp init: Id "s9" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> Mar 10 10:05:57 ws220.ltsp init: Id "s6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> Mar 10 10:05:58 ws220.ltsp init: Id "sa" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> Mar 10 10:05:58 ws220.ltsp init: Id "sb" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> Mar 10 10:05:58 ws220.ltsp init: Id "sc" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> 
> I think this is being caused by the lone Mac thin client I have on the network.  Anyone 
> know what the cause is?  As far as I know the Mac client is working okay (but I'm not 
> onsite at the moment so I can't be certain).

If you look at /opt/ltsp/ppc/etc/inittab you'll see the identifiers
and what they are trying to run - in this case /etc/screen_session.
I'm not sure why it would fail, though.

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