init stifles system
I have serious problems with my Debian system and would appreciate any
hints.
Recently my debian (hamm with kernel 2.203) went down without any trace
in the log files. All services were down and login wasn't possible although
a ping was answered.
Today I saw that the init process doesn't seem to restart. It consumed
approx. 8 MB of Memory and the most of CPU resources. Currently I have no
console access and a reboot via remote login failed. Additionally I saw
that the /etc/inittab wasn't fully installed. This is probably due to the
fact that I was forced ro install the base system a second time (a faulty
libreadline package replaced my working bash with a buggy one (Bug#37275)).
It would be very helpful if someone could send me a inittab from a working
system and give me a hint how to safely replace the init binary. The init
has either a memory leak or the preinstalled inittab causes this behaviour.
--Werner
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