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Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 11:20 AM
Subject: FC3 "INIT: Id 1 respawning too fast..." message on boot
When my newly installed FC3 (2.6.9-1.667) system boots, everything looks good and I get a login prompt. When I enter the user name it comes back with the "INIT: Id 1 respawning too fast, disabled for 5 min". Afer a minute or so it gives the same message with "Id 2, 3.."
Any suggestions where I should start?
Jeff
This is usually an indicator that there is something wrong with your /etc/inittab. Look for the line that begins with "1" and see what init is trying to respawn. In my FC3 box it is /sbin/mingetty. Do you have /sbin/mingetty on your system? Did you remove some packages, maybe with --force or --nodeps?
Thomas
