Re: Virtual Consoles take a long time for gettys to restart

[Richard Hoskins <detach@adelphia.net>]

Ken Bloom <kabloom@ucdavis.edu> writes:

> 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?

I worked around this problem by giving getty the full path to the tty
in inittab.  i.e. "6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 /dev/tty6"
vs. "6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6".  I don't know why this
works.

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