Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Jean Blignaut <jean@×××××××.biz>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-embedded] init Id "s0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 12:59:42
Message-Id: B31C4776605A3840B544482E1A94C5C93AEC84@eagle.birds
1 -----Original Message-----
2 From: Hans-Werner Hilse [mailto:hilse@×××.de]
3 Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 2:43 PM
4 To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
5 Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] init Id "s0" respawning too fast:
6 disabled for 5 minutes
7
8 Hi,
9
10 On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:13:32 +0200 "Jean Blignaut" <jean@×××××××.biz>
11 wrote:
12
13 >> Init: Id "s0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
14 >>
15 >> What does this mean?
16
17 >The inittab entry named "s0" exits with errors in too short intervals.
18 >It's a "respawn" entry.
19
20 Thanx I've just discovered the inittab myself and rebuilt GNAP iso to
21 hopefully not have this prob any more as I don't foresee using a serial
22 console for my application.
23 ----nope just tried still get the "respawning too fast" error even with
24 the s0 line commented out---
25
26 >> ----I also see this in the log:
27 >>
28 >> agetty: ttyS0: ioctl: Input/output error
29
30 >I think this will likely cause it as there's apparently a getty set up
31 >to listen on the serial line #1. Most likely, that device doesn't exist
32 >(yet) at that point. Probably compiled as a module?
33
34 >> error communicating with the kernel
35
36 >I've never seen this before (but I'm not using serial console), but I
37 >think it may be from agetty, too.
38
39 Ipt_owner: pid, sid and command matching is broken on SMP.
40
41 And
42
43 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
44 We have an error talking to the kernel
45
46 Having noticed where this error happens now I would say its probably
47 shorewall since both these happen after * Starting firewall ...
48
49 >So you'll want to check your inittab or kernel config, depending on
50 >whether you want a serial console or not.
51
52 >-hwh
53 >--
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55
56
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Re: [gentoo-embedded] init Id "s0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@×××.de>