On 16 Jun 2003, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > I get this error whenever I launch my new Debian laptop (a Gateway Solo > 2500, about 5 years old, with 96 MB RAM, 4 GB hard drive, 300 MHz Intel > Celeron chip). Specifically, I get a series of error messages about the > usage of getty before I get the error message: > > Init: Id "S" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > > And, of course, after 5 minutes, I get the same display again, which is > really annoying when I'm in the middle of doing something on this > computer. I only see the messages when I'm in console mode, not when > I'm running X. But since X looks so god-awful on this computer, I would > much rather run it in console mode. > > What could be causing this error?
This behavior is because init is trying to start something that is failing immediately. One cause of such errors can be a missing serial port, because attempting to start a getty on a nonfunctional tty device will fail immediately. You need to fix your inittab file. ("man inittab") --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Work:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...2k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech