Re: Debian images on a Risc PC
On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 11:36:56PM +0000, Mark Seaborn wrote:
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> INIT: Version 2.76 booting
> INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
> 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
> INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
>
> I've tried putting a load of echo commands in /etc/init.d/rc and
> /etc/init.d/rcS to see how far it is getting, but nothing extra gets
> printed on the screen.
>
> I have tried using the image in a chroot environment and it does not
> have this problem (although it does go wrong in other ways). But if I
> get Linux to run a small C program on boot to chroot to the image,
> init gives the same respawning errors.
>
> Any ideas what is going wrong?
IIRC I got something very similar to the above when root's shell was
dynamically linked.
(Solution for me was to undo my change to root's shell, and recompile properly
with static linking. To do this I used my spare root partition, a useful thing
for these situation)
Nick
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