Seth R Arnold wrote: > > I got that error message yesterday (with S == 1 on VC1, S == 2 on VC2..) > when I tried to overclock my system beyond where it likes to be overclocked. > > Overclocking it just slightly instead of a lot fixed the problem. > > On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 09:12:30AM -0500, Koyote wrote: > > I'm showing this periodically, and I haven't a clue what it is: > > > > INIT: id "S" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > > > > Anyone know what this is?
I've got the same problem on an older 486 laptop; once upon a time it had Debian on it and I had no problems; then it was temporarily given over to the dark side and had Win95 put on it. When I got it back, I wiped the drive and did a new install of Debian, but I did a minimal install (bypassed the dselect stage of the just-after-base install), and have only added packages as I've found a need for them. During the initial install I think I did something wrong with the PCMCIA modules, because they never load properly. I have to stop and then start the PCMCIA init script. As soon as I do this, the getty line is added to /etc/inittab (it's not there originally), and then I start getting the error messages. Everything works, except every five minutes or so my screen fills up with the "respawning too fast" message. It's annoying, but I haven't yet found the problem, and I don't use the laptop enough to diligently search for an answer. I did post on this list about it some weeks ago, but didn't get an answer. (I'm not trying to get an answer now either; just wanted to let Koyote know my experience in case it offers him a clue.)
