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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