Bug#257487: 'INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes' sometimes after logout

[Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi <gcs@lsc.hu>]

reassign 257487 util-linux
merge 224067 257487
thanks

* Jan 'Miernik' Macek <miernik@ctnet.pl> [2004-07-03 21:37:56 +0200]:

> Sometimes after I logout (for example with ^D) from the console 
> instead of a new login prompt I get a message:
> 
> INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> 
> (if I do this on console 6 for example) and nothing can be done with 
> this console during these 5 minutes. Sometimes after this 5 minutes I 
> get another copy of the message, and then another one and so on, so 
> it may take hours to get rid of this. Very annoying. 
 For me it does not go away.

> It has happened on at least two completely independently installed 
> machines (both latest unstable), and I know at least one other person 
> to whom this happens too.
 Do 'apt-get install util-linux/testing' and put util-linux on-hold.
Restarting the machine may be necessary.

> This is happening since several months, well it was not happening last 
> year. I upgrade to latest unstable every week.
 Yup, I would like to see it fixed somewhen. Currently there are two
fatal bugs in Debian (IMHO): this one, and that perl rc bugs are stalling
way too many packages already.

Cheers,
Laszlo/GCS