Re: [Xen-devel] Debian Problem

Michael McCabe
Wed, 09 Mar 2005 20:48:03 -0000

I''m not running X.  This is a base debian install after running
debootstrap and editing the necessary config files as described in the
user manual.

Mike

Jan Kundrát wrote:

> 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