Re: [Xen-devel] Debian Problem

Jan Kundrát
Wed, 09 Mar 2005 19:09:10 -0000

Michael McCabe wrote:
> Hello
> I''m currently trying to get a Debian image running under Xen.
I''ve
> followed the directions that are available in the user guide but when I
> go to boot the system it doesn''t finish booting.  Immediatly after
the
> cron daemon starts it appears to hang and shortly after that errors are
> printed to the console that init is respawning to fast. INIT: Id
"1"
> respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
>
> The only error before that is this. hwclock is unable to get I/O port
> access:  the iopl(3) call failed.

This error means that the processes defined in /etc/inittab are dying to
fast, and as init is trying to respawn them, some limit is reached. I''m
not using Debian, bu tgoogle search returned something about X stuff -
are you sure you aren''t trying to start X from the default runlevel? Or
some other application which has problems running under Xen?

-jkt

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