On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Markus Schaber wrote: > Ted Spradley wrote: > > > In the mailing lists I see reference to the message: > > > > > > INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > > > > If a process that init started dies, init restarts it, but if the same > > program keeps dying immediately every time it's restarted init > > realizes somethings wrong and isn't going to fix itself. You need to > > figure out what program is dying, and why, and correct the problem. > > Usually, the given ID is the first row of the lines in /etc/inittab, man > inittab should help. >
As Markus and Ted have pointed out this is a problem with some program that is started by init. In fact, this specific problem has a Linux-FAQ entry all to itself: http://www.linuxdoc.org/FAQ/Linux-FAQ/x3204.html#AEN3497 <QUOTE> 9.24. ``init: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.'' In most distributions this means that the system is booting by default into runlevel 5, which is supposed to respawn (re-start again after it's been exited) a graphical login via xdm, kdm, gdm, or whatever, and the system can't locate the program. However, ``Id'' can also indicate the absence or misconfiguration of another program, like mingetty, if init tries to respawn itself more than 10 times in 2 minutes. Id ``x'' is the number in the leftmost column of the /etc/inittab file: # Run gettys in standard runlevels 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6 Commenting the offending line out and then fixing the errant program and testing on the command line will allow you to see any error messages that go to standard error output (console) if the errors are not going to the system log file. Uncomment the line and restart init with ``kill -SIGHUP 1'' or ``telinit q'' to cause init to reinitialize and reread the /etc/inittab file. Some systems, however, rewrite /etc/inittab when booting. In that case, refer to the init man page, and/or the settings in /etc/sysconfig/init. Refer to the init and /etc/inittab man pages for detailed information. </QUOTE> HTH, -Oisin _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
