On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:21:55 +0100 Lisi <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 29 September 2009 22:47:39 Kevin Ross wrote: > > change your getty to rungetty > > I have been trying to do this ever since. I have Googled, tried > various things but am completely stuck. I set up a trial Lenny and > IceWM system on my laptop. I then installed rungetty. I next edited > inittab (having firdt saved the original as inittab.old) and changed > getty to rungetty. When I restarted I had neither getty nor rungetty > running.
Which tty did you run rungetty on? For testing, I suggest that you leave at least one VT on regular getty, so that you can get into the system if rungetty barfs. > I then searched everywhere I could think of for other instances of > getty and could find none. I ought to have kept a list of the files > I opened to look for getty; it was a long one. I think that inittab should be sufficient. Please post both your old and new inittab files. ... > The relevant part of the messages on screen was: > > <quote> > entering runlevel 2 > [cut] > > INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > > INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel > > INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > [and so on for some time. But after that only the six respawning > lines were repeated.] I'm no expert at this sort of thing, but it sounds like rungetty is being invoked and immediately dying, and then being restarted. init has a mechanism to prevent the login processes from being respawned too rapidly, and you're hitting that. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org