On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 02:10:16AM -0500, Alessandro Ghigi wrote: > I have installed Debian Linux on my laptop (Dell Latitude). At the end of > the boot process there is a weird screen and the mysterious (for > me) message > > Init Id "S" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes. > > Every some minutes (I haven't checked if they are really 5) the same weird > screen emerges and I have to press Ctrl-L to come back to the prompt.
There is probably something wrong with your /etc/inittab AFAIK "S" entry is responsible for swawning a /sbin/sulogin on entering Single-user mode... don't know why your machine wants to spawn it... regards, Marcin -- --------------------------------- Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------
