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From: Dirk Heinrichs <ext-dirk.heinrichs@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Agetty
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:09:34
Message-Id: 200510241548.10051.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Agetty by Glenn Enright
1 Am Montag, 24. Oktober 2005 10:17 schrieb ext Glenn Enright:
2 > On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:27, Daniel Faulknor wrote:
3 > > Hi everyone
4 > > After my kernel loads i get the message
5 > > INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/agetty"
6 > > INIT: Id "c6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
7 > > INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
8 > >
9 > > Then the computer just stops - HELP!
10 > >
11 > > Thanks
12 > > Daniel Faulknor
13 > > --
14 > > www.nzguydaniel.blogspot.com <http://www.nzguydaniel.blogspot.com>
15 >
16 > you are missing the agetty application that is described in your
17 > /etc/inittab file. agetty belongs to sys-apps/util-linux, which you could
18 > reemerge by using your livecd and doing the chroot thing like when you
19 > installed.
20
21 Or ist is installed, but has no execute permission.
22
23 > either that or you are playing with a new kernel, and forgot
24 > to compile support for the filesystem which /sbin is on.
25
26 If this was the case, how could init be executed, or even read inittab?
27
28 Bye...
29
30 Dirk
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Re: [gentoo-user] Agetty Glenn Enright <elinar@×××××××.nz>