Re: INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Jan Tammen wrote:
> I discovered another problem:
> 
> After booting my machine (info see below) with a newly compiled kernel
> 2.4.6, I get the following message on the "first console":
> 
> INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabling for 5 minutes
> 
> After 5 minutes the same again ... however, the other consoles are usable
> without problems.
> 
> Any suggestions? tia, Jan.

Any chance you're using mingetty and devfs? I ran into a similar
problem, mingetty didn't work with devfs on one console.

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