Re: tty5 respawning too fast - disabled

2001-04-02 Thread John Patton
I'm not sure why it happens exactly, but there is an easy fix for it. As root, edit /etc/inittab. Towards the bottom there will be a bunch of lines that look like the following: 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -L 38400 tty1 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L 38400 tty2 3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L 38400 tty3 4

tty5 respawning too fast - disabled

2001-04-02 Thread Jason Pepas
lately i have been having a problem where the console reports "INIT: ID5 is respawing to often and will be disabled for 5 minutes"   ID5 i figured out is tty5, because I cannot access it when this happens (at first I thoguht it meant PID 5, which was kswapd).   I remember reading that certai