Re: Virtual Consoles take a long time for gettys to restart
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:31:30PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> 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?
In Sid, this can be stopped by downgrading the util-linux package to
2.12-5. Can't say it "fixes" the problem, but the outcome is the same.
Kenward
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