RE: [Xen-devel] Re: Debian Problem

Ian Pratt
Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:56:11 -0000

> >>>>> 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

> Firstly, if Xen really did provide *only* tty0 - no standard Debian
> installation could ever get a console up, since it only starts
> consoles on tty1-tty6, not tty0. However, I have booted vanilla Debian
> installations under Xen, and there are no error messages of this sort
> - so I believe the first console (tty1) is the Xen console, and others
> are faked or just don''t give an error message.

Yep, we now register dummy devices, so I was totally wrong.

>  b) INIT is unable to open the tty devices. This can ofcourse be
>  caused by a number of things - having the wrong root partition,
>  having an empty dev, having devfs mounted without devfsd, having a
>  broken udev mount or simply by having wrong paths in inittab. We had
>  one problem where a Debian image downloaded from the net did not have
>  ''tty1'' etc. as the device paths, but
''vc/1'' instead. (Remember that
>  devfs is not a good idea with Xen guests.)

That''s the most probable cause.

Thanks for correcting me :-)

Ian


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