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

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 02 Oct 2011, Ralf Jung wrote:
> 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

*Un*commenting means enabling it.  Did you _disable_ it by _commenting_ it?

Looks like fallout from #636846...

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