Last time I saw this it was caused by vgetty trying to find a non-existent USB serial port.
Vik :v) On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 09:12 +1200, Roy Britten wrote: > debian stable on sparc. > > In /var/log/syslog I'm seeing multiple reports of > > modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-4 > > and in /var/log/ksymoops/*.log I'm seeing multiple reports of > > start /sbin/modprobe -s -k char-major-4 safemode=1 > > Furthermore, login terminals appear to respawning unacceptably fast > immediately after the message above. Extract from /var/log/syslog: > > May 3 16:53:22 grunt modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-4 > May 3 16:53:53 grunt last message repeated 19 times > May 3 16:54:54 grunt last message repeated 36 times > May 3 16:54:55 grunt last message repeated 4 times > May 3 16:55:03 grunt init: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes -- Vik Olliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Olliver Family
