I looked this up on google and found other people with the same problem, but didn't find the cause or solution. I can log in on all consoles just fine when I boot. However, there is a delay when I logout in getting the login prompt, and sometimes I get a message about "init: id x (whichever tty number it is) respawning too fast; disabled for 5 minutes) and once I get this message sometimes that tty continues to be disabled, though I can usually still log on, after a delay, on another tty. Anybody seen this before? Anybody know what I should check? There doesn't appear to be any problem with my /etc/inittab. since I'm running debian stable and kernel 2.4.22, it might just be an occupational hazard, but I don't recall seeing this problem recently on debian lists. Thanks. -- Cheryl