Hello, As i read your message i realized you're stuck with the same problem as i do for some time on hamm, without finding a solution. That's why I launched a similar cry for help a few days ago, without any luck until now....
Here's a copy of my original message: Hi, While I installed Linux some time ago with a lot of 'trial and error', I got things working finally, Including xdm and kdm, on an old Deskpro386, 20 Mhz, 12 Mb memory with SVGA card, . Two curious things keep me bothering from the beginning, however: * 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 hope some Linux-guru can give a little advice to solve these 'destabilizing' phenomena. TIA -----Original Message----- From: Chris R. Martin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: maandag 15 maart 1999 1:13 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: strange log messages/behavior Has anyone ever seen these messages before? Does anyone know what they mean? Mar 14 17:27:19 server init: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Mar 14 17:28:50 server init: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Mar 14 17:29:39 server init: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Mar 14 17:29:42 server init: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Mar 14 17:29:45 server init: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Mar 14 17:29:49 server init: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Mar 14 17:29:49 server init: no more processes left in this runlevel My server stoped responding to telnet and ftp (it would immediately close the connection). SAMBA and NFS still seemed to work however. So I got access to the console, and tried to log in, it gave me the above messages on the screen (and I found these in /var/log/syslog). Anyway, I did not see any recourse other than to hit reset, because Ctrl-Alt-Del did not respond either. How should I have dealt with this problem? Any ideas how it occured? Chris -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null