Re: "respawning too fast"
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 02:10:16AM -0500, Alessandro Ghigi wrote:
> I have installed Debian Linux on my laptop (Dell Latitude). At the end of
> the boot process there is a weird screen and the mysterious (for
> me) message
>
> Init Id "S" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
>
> Every some minutes (I haven't checked if they are really 5) the same weird
> screen emerges and I have to press Ctrl-L to come back to the prompt.
There is probably something wrong with your /etc/inittab
AFAIK "S" entry is responsible for swawning a /sbin/sulogin on entering
Single-user mode... don't know why your machine wants to spawn it...
regards,
Marcin
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