Stuart, I have compared the inittab file to another server which works. There doesn't seem to be any problem/typo. It is exactly the same. I called up Dell and they were unable to help me. Is there anything else I might try. Thanks, -abhinav --- Stuart Sears <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
