On Wednesday 04 Feb 2004 15:29, Abhinav Gautam wrote: > Hello, > > We have a Red Hat 7.1 i686 running on a Dell PowerApp web 120. > We are getting the respawning error again and again. We have > looked through the /etc/inittab (which is running mingetty), but > can't find a solution. By default the init process is 3. We have > changed that to 5, but to no avail. We don't get the log in > prompt. Is there any way to solve this. Any help will be really > appreciated. > > This is the exact error: > INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes the only thing I have seen cause this is a missing id:3:initdefault line (or a mistyped one) in /etc/inittab just my 5p worth Stuart -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list