From: Jeffrey Young <jyoung82@carolina.rr.com> Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 10:33:55 -0400 Message-ID: <3t0dgt8b8c6nl6ve9jqle1to4a15utbb1l@4ax.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Netra problem with login
I rebooted again (apart from YAST's automatic reboot after the install) but the
same thing occurs...Also, I have no network access to the machine at this
time....
Jeff
>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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