On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Kris Van Heghe wrote: > - Sometimes, even during or just after starting the machine, at one of the > virtual terminals, there is a message saying "INIT respawning to fast, > disabled for 5 minutes". Logging in on that vt is then impossible, trying > on another vt gives me the same strange message. Only one solution: power > off, restarting 'dirty' and hoping for better lucks this a > hardware-dependent problem or a configuration error ? > - Sometimes, after playing around for a while on the machine, if some > command gives me an error, subsequent commands (whatever it is) produce > only one output: 'Segmentation fault'. From that moment, there is only one > solution: restarting the machine, the 'dirty way'.
I can't help with the root of the problem, but there is at least one other "solution", concatenate together all the scripts that bring the system down (cat /etc/rc0.d/* > downfast), then edit all the junk out. You will be left with a script that should run even when the kernel is spitting out segv's at the drop of a hat. Of course it is only useful if you have root logged on a VC that you can switch to *as soon as the problems start*. It doesn't fix the problem, but it does let you shutdown the machine in an orderly fashion. P-em me if you need more. - Bruce
