On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 16:11:06 +0100, Kent West wrote: > Ken Bloom wrote: > >>I've observed on my machine over the last several months that it takes an >>inordinately long time after I log off of one of my machine's virtual >>consoles before the getty restarts, prints /etc/issue and is ready to >>accept logins again. Occasionally, I get a situation where init reports >>the getty as respawning too fast and disables it for 5 minutes. Any idea >>what's wrong? >> >> >> > Don't have any idea what's wrong, but thought I'd tell you that I've seen > references to this in the list every so often (so you might want to check > the archives), and I've experienced the same on most (all?) of my boxes, > but it doesn't bother me enough to track it down and fix it; since I > usually have a free tty I just switch over to it and by the time I need > the first one again it's ready. > > I only post this so that you'll know it's not just your machine.
A bit of googling revealed http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200104/msg00257.html > You will want to add the -L switch to each one. That option > disables carrier-detection, which is responsible for the > problems. You don't need carrier detection anyway unless you > are connecting to your box via a dumb terminal from a remote > location (you almost certainly aren't). I, on the other hand, just decided to change to a different getty - fbgetty, designed for framebuffer consoles like I'm using. (I also tried mingetty which didn't want to work) We'll see how that pans out. -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. ***** My computer can't give you viruses by email. *** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]