On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 11:36:30PM -0800, Laurent de Segur wrote: > On 2.4.12 and up, I get a lot of "respawing too fast" for id 2-6, "disabling > for 5 mins" messages. I looked in my /etc/inittab and the process for these > ids was assigned to mingetty. Switching to getty for those solved the > problem (I don't see these spurious messages on the console), but I was > wondering if I need to give some peculiar option(s) on the inittab lines to > avoid this error and to be able to continue using mingetty, which I really > like for getting rid of the obnoxious penguin logo after startup.
Are you running devfs? If so, this is a known bug in mingetty: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=81275 -- Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
