On Thursday 29 October 2009 10:55:50 ladislav klenovic wrote: please dont top post
> As Detlef said I don't know have to specify that in inittab thus I run the > shell regardless whether there is or not a debug console. > I choose the tty0 according to busybox 1.2.2 which works fine for me. So > maybe some kind of configuration option which could > specify which device to use if no console is available would make sense. the only thing that might need checking is why init didnt back off on the respawn. sysvinit will wait 5 minutes if it hits ~10 failures in a 2 minute period. or maybe it does and your log didnt show init going to sleep. at any rate, going by your described setup, busybox' init sounds like it's operating just fine. you gave it an invalid console and so the shell failed to run. i dont want init randomly guessing at a "good" tty and hooking up shells to it unless i told it to. in other words, if you want a shell on tty0 and not just your default console, then fix your inittab to do that. -mike
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