logcheck is reporting getty failures and id "2" respawning too fast
Suddenly I'm getting a lot of logcheck messages:
System Events
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May 14 04:06:34 desk getty[7757]: /dev/tty2: already in use
May 14 04:06:44 desk getty[7758]: /dev/tty2: already in use
May 14 04:06:54 desk getty[7759]: /dev/tty2: already in use
May 14 04:07:04 desk getty[7760]: /dev/tty2: already in use
May 14 04:07:14 desk getty[7761]: /dev/tty2: already in use
May 14 04:07:24 desk getty[7762]: /dev/tty2: already in use
May 14 04:07:34 desk getty[7763]: /dev/tty2: already in use
May 14 04:07:44 desk getty[7764]: /dev/tty2: already in use
May 14 04:07:54 desk getty[7765]: /dev/tty2: already in use
May 14 04:08:04 desk getty[7771]: /dev/tty2: already in use
May 14 04:08:14 desk init: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5
minutes
basically constantly, logcheck sends me several emails like this every
day. I updated util-linux to 2.12-7 on 5/3.
Why is this happening?
Also some other information which may be unrelated:
I looked in /var/log for logfiles which may be growing uncontrollably
and found wtmp was 5 MB. Is that suspiciously large?
When I run chkrootkit I get this output:
Checking `wted'... 1 deletion(s) between Sun May 2 09:12:04 2004 and
Sun May 2 09:13:57 2004
1 deletion(s) between Mon May 10 17:44:01 2004 and Mon May 10 17:57:36
2004
nothing deleted
Also I apparently have some ReiserFS corruption in /var/log; I think
this happens when I overclock my computer to the limit of what's stable
in Windows for games and I forget to crank it down in Linux. When that
happens I usually just reinstall.
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