Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 16:24:59 +0200 From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> Message-ID: <20010519162459.A32266@suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Netra problem with login
On Sat, May 19, Jeffrey Young wrote:
> Almost there on the Netra t1 105.....
>
> I've got Linux on the machine and YAST has rebooted......However, when the
> system enters runlevel 3 and the 'login:' prompt is about to appear, I get the
> following message:
>
> 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
>
> This repeats every 5 minutes. I know this problem is caused by my /etc/inittab
> file but I can't get into the system to edit the file. The is a headless box
> accessed through the serial port so I assume from the posts I've been reading
> that the Rescue Disk is not an option.....
Do you have network access to the box ? (telnet, ssh, rlogin, ... )
If you have installed over serial console with YaST2 or YaST, you
only need to reboot. There is a bug that sometimes the init process
does not see that /etc/inittab is changed and that it should spawn
an getty on the serial line.
Thorsten
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