Re: Sarge NFS Root: "INIT: id "1" respawning too fast"
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 12:55:55PM -0000, Tom Northeast wrote:
> After a short while i get an error from each runlevel:
>
> INIT: id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
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This means that the inittab entry labelled "1" is exiting right away
every time it starts. To see the entry:
$ grep ^1: /etc/inittab
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
So it's /sbin/getty exiting too soon. There is little doubt that this
is because the device file getty accepts as its second argument (i.e.,
/dev/tty1) does not exist.
This is probably either because you are using devfs (in which case you
want vc/1 instead of tty1, etc) or you're using udev but it's broken.
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