Comment 15 for bug 8231

Message-ID: <20040703211729.GA9942@pooh>
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 23:17:29 +0200
From: Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi <email address hidden>
To: Jan 'Miernik' Macek <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#257487: 'INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes' sometimes after
 logout

reassign 257487 util-linux
merge 224067 257487
thanks

* Jan 'Miernik' Macek <email address hidden> [2004-07-03 21:37:56 +0200]:

> Sometimes after I logout (for example with ^D) from the console
> instead of a new login prompt I get a message:
>
> INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>
> (if I do this on console 6 for example) and nothing can be done with
> this console during these 5 minutes. Sometimes after this 5 minutes I
> get another copy of the message, and then another one and so on, so
> it may take hours to get rid of this. Very annoying.
 For me it does not go away.

> It has happened on at least two completely independently installed
> machines (both latest unstable), and I know at least one other person
> to whom this happens too.
 Do 'apt-get install util-linux/testing' and put util-linux on-hold.
Restarting the machine may be necessary.

> This is happening since several months, well it was not happening last
> year. I upgrade to latest unstable every week.
 Yup, I would like to see it fixed somewhen. Currently there are two
fatal bugs in Debian (IMHO): this one, and that perl rc bugs are stalling
way too many packages already.

Cheers,
Laszlo/GCS