Message-ID: <007501c0e0a1$099b40e0$2bfea8c0@korensloot.priv> From: "Peter Ebbelink" <Peter.J.Ebbelink@Bigfoot.com> Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 22:19:41 +0200 Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Netra problem with login
Get network access, by means of a cross cable or so.
Otherwise boot from the CD and mount the file system.
Check that /dev/null is a DEVICE and not a regular file.
If it is a regular file, remove it and recreate the device as described in
the man page.
This worked for me (had the same symptoms, plus some curses about a
read-only fs)
Hope this helps,
Peter.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Young" <jyoung82@carolina.rr.com>
To: <suse-sparc@suse.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 4:33 PM
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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