Re: Virtual Consoles take a long time for gettys to restart
On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 16:11:06 +0100, Kent West wrote:
> Ken Bloom wrote:
>
>>I've observed on my machine over the last several months that it takes an
>>inordinately long time after I log off of one of my machine's virtual
>>consoles before the getty restarts, prints /etc/issue and is ready to
>>accept logins again. Occasionally, I get a situation where init reports
>>the getty as respawning too fast and disables it for 5 minutes. Any idea
>>what's wrong?
>>
>>
>>
> Don't have any idea what's wrong, but thought I'd tell you that I've seen
> references to this in the list every so often (so you might want to check
> the archives), and I've experienced the same on most (all?) of my boxes,
> but it doesn't bother me enough to track it down and fix it; since I
> usually have a free tty I just switch over to it and by the time I need
> the first one again it's ready.
>
> I only post this so that you'll know it's not just your machine.
>
This is 4 merged bugs. There's even patch available (in 229788):
224028 224067 226443 229788
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