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Re: Strange phenomena: "INIT respawning to fast", "segmentation fault"



On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Kris Van Heghe wrote:

> - Sometimes, even during or just after starting the machine, at one of the 
> virtual terminals, there is a message saying "INIT respawning to fast, 
> disabled for 5 minutes". Logging in on that vt is then impossible, trying 
> on another vt gives me the same strange message. Only one solution: power 
> off, restarting 'dirty' and hoping for better lucks this a 
> hardware-dependent problem or a configuration error ?
> - Sometimes, after playing around for a while on the machine, if some 
> command gives me an error, subsequent commands  (whatever it is) produce 
> only one output: 'Segmentation fault'. From that moment, there is only one 
> solution: restarting the machine, the 'dirty way'.

I can't help with the root of the problem, but there is at least one
other "solution", concatenate together all the scripts that bring the
system down (cat /etc/rc0.d/* > downfast), then edit all the junk out. 
You will be left with a script that should run even when the kernel is
spitting out segv's at the drop of a hat.  Of course it is only useful
if you have root logged on a VC that you can switch to *as soon as the
problems start*.  It doesn't fix the problem, but it does let you
shutdown the machine in an orderly fashion.  P-em me if you need more. 


- Bruce



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