Re: Spawned process.

[Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

>>>>> " " == tom  <tcada@attglobal.net> writes:

     > I have loaded potato onto my laptop. When I boot and just
     > before the login prompt comes up, I get a page or two of what
     > appear to be command line helps.

     > The message is "Usage: /sbin/getty [-hi...". The last line
     > states "Init: Id "S" respawning too fast: disabled for 5
     > minutes."

You have a broken entry in your /etc/inittab. init tries to start
getty several times and then gives up for 5 minutes.

The faulty line starts with "S:", so look for that. I don't have such
a line in my inittab. Looks strange.

MfG
        Goswin