public inbox for gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Hanni Ali" <hanni.ali@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] init Id "s0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 13:56:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <789d27b10604050556j43003090ta2144426510c49fe@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060405144241.af227ed4.hilse@web.de>

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1282 bytes --]

I had something like this happen whe I was using mingetty to autologin and
it wasn't installed. Possibly modules problem but fist check you have agetty
installed/configured correctly.

Hanni




On 05/04/06, Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@web.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:13:32 +0200 "Jean Blignaut" <jean@megaweb.biz>
> wrote:
>
> > Init: Id "s0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> >
> > What does this mean?
>
> The inittab entry named "s0" exits with errors in too short intervals.
> It's a "respawn" entry.
>
> > ----I also see this in the log:
> >
> > agetty: ttyS0: ioctl: Input/output error
>
> I think this will likely cause it as there's apparently a getty set up
> to listen on the serial line #1. Most likely, that device doesn't exist
> (yet) at that point. Probably compiled as a module?
>
> > error communicating with the kernel
>
> I've never seen this before (but I'm not using serial console), but I
> think it may be from agetty, too.
>
> So you'll want to check your inittab or kernel config, depending on
> whether you want a serial console or not.
>
> -hwh
> --
> gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>


--
E-mail: hanni.ali@gmail.com
Mobile: 07985580147
Website: www.ainkaboot.co.uk

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1830 bytes --]

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-05 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-05 12:13 [gentoo-embedded] init Id "s0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Jean Blignaut
2006-04-05 12:42 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2006-04-05 12:56   ` Hanni Ali [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-04-05 13:01 Jean Blignaut
2006-04-05 13:43 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2006-04-05 13:35 Jean Blignaut
2006-04-05 13:58 Jean Blignaut
2006-04-05 14:12 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2006-04-05 14:30 Jean Blignaut
2006-04-05 14:47 Jean Blignaut
2006-04-05 14:52 ` Hans-Werner Hilse

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=789d27b10604050556j43003090ta2144426510c49fe@mail.gmail.com \
    --to=hanni.ali@gmail.com \
    --cc=gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox