system crash / init: Id 2 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

[Marcus Schopen <lists@localguru.de>]

Hi,

my little ultra 1 (sarge) crash tonight. Last message in syslog is:

Apr 28 01:21:57 oola init: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Apr 28 01:21:57 oola init: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Apr 28 01:21:57 oola init: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Apr 28 01:21:58 oola init: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Apr 28 01:21:58 oola init: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Apr 28 01:21:58 oola init: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

/etc/inittab:
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6

Any ideas why the console getty could crash the system?

Cheers,
M.