On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:40:48PM -0800, 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?
One or two times I had a similar problem with a machine I was setting
up. However, on that particular machine I didn't get any gettys at
all but fortunately had already set up ssh so I could still log in and
look at logs and change config files. Eventually I figured out that
the problem was the getty was looking for, for example, /dev/tty0 but
since I disabled devfsd that device didn't exist. I corrected it by
changing the device to /dev/vc/0 in /etc/inittab.
-D
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