topic Re: Command respawning too rapidly. in Operating System - HP-UX

Command respawning too rapidly.

Jeffrey F. Goldsmith — Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:06:20 GMT

I had to reboot my L2000 server yesterday afternoon. At the time my dial-in modem was turned off. When my system was back up I started to get this error:

INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly.
Will try again in 5 minutes.
Check for possible errors.
id: a0 "/usr/lbin/uucp/getty -h ttyd2a1 19200"

We thought that because the modem was turned off we were getting the errors so we turned the modem back on. We are still getting the error.

What do I need to do to have the error message stop.

Re: Command respawning too rapidly.

Helen French — Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:17:45 GMT

1) Check if your modem port is working and connected properly. Is your modem working?

2) If you don't want to use the modem and need to stop this message, edit /etc/inittab file (make a copy before you edit it) and replace 'respawn' with 'off' on the specific line. After editing, run 'init q'.

Re: Command respawning too rapidly.

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 02:25:59 GMT

check your /etc/rc.log to find more.
Check you /etc/inittab getty definitions

are you sure the device file is correct?
lssf /dev/ttyd2a1
ioscan -fnk and look for the modem.

Re: Command respawning too rapidly.

Keith Bevan_1 — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 03:00:04 GMT

Jeff,

Until you find the source of the problem you can also comment out the troublesome entry in the etc/inittab file :-

#id:a0 "/usr/lbin/uucp/getty -h ttyd2a1 19200"

and Re-examine the inittab entries without changing the run level :-

init q

At least this will stop multiple console and log file entries until you get the issue fixed.

Keith

Re: Command respawning too rapidly.

Mark Grant — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 03:48:12 GMT

A slightly better approach to commenting out the line in /etc/inittab is to change it from "respawn" to "off". Only because that's what the "off" field is for.

Re: Command respawning too rapidly.

Bruno Ganino — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:54:29 GMT

Jeff, try to edit /etc/inittab.
Set in device(modem) the option -t
example:/sbin/getty [-hN] [-t timeout] line [speed]
Save the change and exit
Then exec command: init q

HTH
Bruno