Re: [Xen-devel] Debian Problem

Dave
Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:21:19 -0000

> > 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
>
> That''s not init spawning too fast, but the processes defined with
those ids in
> /etc/inittab.  In this case, they are gettys.  Disabling them(using # to
> comment them out) will solve this non-problem.
>
> I also don''t think cron is hanging.

I''d expect that it just happens that cron is the last thing in the boot
sequence, and that it''s simply not printing any additional messages
after
that point.

This sounds like init is trying to spawn the gettys and they''re failing
to
open the tty devices -> are you using devfs in the Debian image?
Ensure that the lines in inittab which look like this:

1:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1

..for the console gettys, are pointing at a tty device (in this case /dev/tty1)
which exists.



	Hope this helps,

		Dave