someone has made my init unhappy.
I have started experiencing a rather frustrating problem recently,
well within the past month or so anyway. It has taken a more
irritating turn in the past few days. I usually logout of my various
consoles each evening before leaving the office. I have noticed that
recently sometimes one or so of the consoles doesn't complete the
logout process and I start getting the message:
INIT: Id "8" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
It is not always console eight but once it happens I have not found a
way to clear the condition short of rebooting.
I have not filed a bug report because I'm not sure who's bug this is
exactly bash, init or base-files. I checked the bugs for base-files
but it says there are none pending.
Someone suggested it may only happen on consoles I have background
tasks running on but I can't tell for sure because in any given day I
may start many many background tasks and daemons. So which consoles I
started them on after the fact is difficult to say. There are no
references to the misbehaving tty in a ps aux listing.
If anyone has any ideas about what to check or how to clear the
situation it would be very useful. I can't imagine I'm the only
person seeing this behaviour. I am running sid which gets
dist-upgraded every few days. I am running kernel 2.4.24 but was
seeing the same behaviour under 2.4.20 which I upgraded from
yesterday. A dpkg -l listing of bash and base-files is:
ii base-files 3.0.12 Debian base system miscellaneous
files
ii bash 2.05b-12 The GNU Bourne Again SHell
Kirk
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