Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Hanni Ali <hanni.ali@×××××.com>
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 12:57:10
Message-Id: 789d27b10604050556j43003090ta2144426510c49fe@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] init Id "s0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes by Hans-Werner Hilse
1 I had something like this happen whe I was using mingetty to autologin and
2 it wasn't installed. Possibly modules problem but fist check you have agetty
3 installed/configured correctly.
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5 Hanni
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10 On 05/04/06, Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@×××.de> wrote:
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12 > Hi,
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14 > On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:13:32 +0200 "Jean Blignaut" <jean@×××××××.biz>
15 > wrote:
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17 > > Init: Id "s0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
18 > >
19 > > What does this mean?
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21 > The inittab entry named "s0" exits with errors in too short intervals.
22 > It's a "respawn" entry.
23 >
24 > > ----I also see this in the log:
25 > >
26 > > agetty: ttyS0: ioctl: Input/output error
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28 > I think this will likely cause it as there's apparently a getty set up
29 > to listen on the serial line #1. Most likely, that device doesn't exist
30 > (yet) at that point. Probably compiled as a module?
31 >
32 > > error communicating with the kernel
33 >
34 > I've never seen this before (but I'm not using serial console), but I
35 > think it may be from agetty, too.
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37 > So you'll want to check your inittab or kernel config, depending on
38 > whether you want a serial console or not.
39 >
40 > -hwh
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