Try "man init" or "man inittab". Or read on.
The master process, init, runs the processes listed in /etc/inittab . Some
of them have the keyword "respawn" associate with them. This is an
instruction to init that whenever the process terminats, it is supposed to
be restarted. Working correctly, the resparn procedure is what causes the
login: prompte to reappear on a console after you log out (the getty process
on that console respawns).
Now, on every Linux sustem I've ever used, "1" through "6" are the inittab
designators for the getty processes that run the 6 consoles (the ones you
switch among by pressing ALT-F#). If they are all respawning, where are you
seeing the messages? Are you able to log in from any console? Are you
running X? Can you telnet in successfully?
I'm really fishing here -- generally, can you give us some context for these
messages? I've seen respawn problems many times, but never with consoles --
the only thing I can think of is that init is trying to run a *getty* app
that is not present on the system or that has its permissions set wrong.
If you post again, please include
the relevant extract from /etc/inittab (that is, the lines
for process IDs 1 to 6; also, the line with "initdefault")
what distribution and version of Linux you are running
whether you can find the process listed in the inittab lines above
(it might be getty, agetty, mgetty, mingetty, getty_ps)
with the "which" command
how you are logging into the system to see these messages, read
man pages, etc., given the problem you report
At 11:25 PM 2/1/00 -0700, John Starkey wrote:
>I'm now getting:
>
>INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>
>Actually it is repeating this for IDs 1-6.
>
>Could someone tell me how to fix this????
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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