Re: [Xen-devel] Debian Problem

Nicholas Lee
Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:02:23 -0000

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 09:21:19PM +0000, Dave wrote:
> > > 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



In UML this can be a symptom of the NTPL libs.  Try  ''mv /lib/
/lib/tls.disabled/''.
See also: http://uml.harlowhill.com/index.php/Troubleshooting#distrosetup

Another thing to try is changing to this line in inittab.
0:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 ttys/0


Otherwise, maybe tty dev permissions problem.  Try udev or devfs.




Nicholas