re-exec init??

[<mcclosk@cats.ucsc.edu>]

Hello:

I upgraded to potato about a week ago, and more recently compiled and
installed the 2.2.17pre20 kernel. So I've been watching the log-files
sort of closely in case any problems emerge. I was bothered to notice
this in daemon.log this morning:

Sep  1 23:03:26 debian init: Trying to re-exec init

Isn't it true that init should only be started at boot time and when
changing runlevels? Or have I misunderstood? What could bring about an
attempt to restart it when the system is up and running? I've
certainly not seen an entry like this in the log files before.

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There was one other worrisome entry, this one in kern.log:

Sep  2 09:48:12 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
kswapd...
Sep  2 09:48:36 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
kswapd...
Sep  2 09:49:44 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
kswapd...
Sep  2 09:54:48 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
kswapd...
Sep  2 09:56:51 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
kswapd...
Sep  2 09:57:58 debian last message repeated 2 times
Sep  2 09:59:09 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
kswapd...
Sep  2 09:59:32 debian kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd...

This doesn't look good to me. 

I'd be grateful for any advice or information. My normal mail-server
is down for the weekend. If you could copy any replies to
    mcclosk@cats.ucsc.edu
I'd be even more grateful.

Jim