[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#644099: init: Id "co" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

[Ralf Jung]

Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.88dsf-13.11
Severity: normal

On both of the machines I installed a recent Debian on (testing on my laptop,
sid on my tower), I am getting the following error regularly in the syslog, and
on tty1:

init: Id "co" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes



Googling for that message showed that many others have it, too, and that it
could be silenced by uncommenting the following line from /etc/inittab

co:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty hvc0 9600 linux

Which I did on both machines, successfully.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-rc6-selfcompiled+ (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sysvinit depends on:
ii  initscripts     2.88dsf-13.11
ii  libc6           2.13-21      
ii  libselinux1     2.1.0-1      
ii  libsepol1       2.1.0-1.1    
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-13.11
ii  sysvinit-utils  2.88dsf-13.11

sysvinit recommends no packages.

sysvinit suggests no packages.

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