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
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