Re: boot failure in multiuser environnement OSR 5.0.5 Reply-To: scomsc@xenitec.on.ca

teouche enscribed:
| I passed the first stage of the boot, with the help of my floppy drive
| ;-)
|
| After pressing CTRL+D the boot stops with this ugly message :
|
| "
|
| INIT : Command is respawning too rapidly. Check for possible errors.
| id: c10 "/etc/getty tty08 sc_m"
|
| INIT : Command is respawning too rapidly. Check for possible errors.
| id: c12 "/etc/getty tty08 sc_m"
|
| INIT : Command is respawning too rapidly. Check for possible errors.
| id: c07 "/etc/getty tty08 sc_m"
|
| INIT : Command is respawning too rapidly. Check for possible errors.
| id: c08 "/etc/getty tty08 sc_m"
|
| INIT : Command is respawning too rapidly. Check for possible errors.
| id: c03 "/etc/getty tty08 sc_m"
|
| "
|
| Any idea ?

First, you (naturally) had to type the above and make some errors doing it.
The tty number should correspond to the c** number, ie., it should be:
id: c03 "/etc/getty tty08 sc_m"
^ 03
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I don't remember if 5.0.5 will shut up after a short period or not, the
later revisions do.

That indicates something has probably trashed your /dev/tty* files or
/etc/initab has been erroneously modified. I doubt inittab could be
trashed in that manner without human help.

My suggestion is to shut the system down and bring it back to single
user mode, then verify your /dev/tty* devices are correct. This is
from a 5.0.5 system:
crw------- 1 bin terminal 0, 0 Mar 10 20:00 /dev/tty01
crw------- 1 bin terminal 0, 1 Mar 10 20:00 /dev/tty02
crw------- 1 bin terminal 0, 2 Mar 10 20:01 /dev/tty03
crw------- 1 bin terminal 0, 3 Feb 28 17:42 /dev/tty04
crw------- 1 bin terminal 0, 4 Nov 1 17:36 /dev/tty05
crw------- 1 bin terminal 0, 5 Nov 1 17:36 /dev/tty06
crw------- 1 bin terminal 0, 6 Nov 1 17:36 /dev/tty07
crw------- 1 bin terminal 0, 7 Nov 1 17:36 /dev/tty08
crw------- 1 bin terminal 0, 8 Nov 1 17:36 /dev/tty09
crw------- 1 bin terminal 0, 9 Mar 2 22:32 /dev/tty10
crw------- 1 bin terminal 0, 10 Feb 22 22:32 /dev/tty11
crw------- 1 bin terminal 0, 11 Mar 17 22:31 /dev/tty12

If any are missing, you can recreate them with mknod
mknod /dev/{tty_name} c 0 {minor device number}

Look at the /etc/inittab file and see if the entries are correct.

NOTE: This is not the way I would do it and others might suggest you
disable the ttys but I don't think you are real confident using OpenServer
and its hard to type when the screen is scrolling. If you should
accidentially type "disable" instead of "disable tty08", you will have
a LOT of problems. For those of us who accidentially did this back
in 1990, that bug is still around.

Much safer to reboot and work from single user (maintenance) mode.

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