topic Re: Respawning too rapidly in Operating System - HP-UX

Respawning too rapidly

Marco Hernandez Padilla — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:26:09 GMT

Hi:
I have one HP-900 K420 with HP-UX 11.0
I'm getting this message:

INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly
Will try again in 5 minutes
Check for possible errors
id: "/usr/bin/getty console console"

I can't login then.
Any idea what's going on?
Thank's

Re: Respawning too rapidly

Darren Prior — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:47:24 GMT

Hi,

One of the common causes of this is if you have a script in /etc/rc.config.d that shouldn't be there.

Check for any timestamps in that directory since your last reboot - then see if those files contain anything more than just setting variables. If they do then move them to a temporary location and check them out.

Also, be aware that as any files in this directory will be sourced you should check for any old backup files, ie wibble.bak.

Here's a doc in the knowledge base that can talk you through fixing this issue: UXDNKBRC00000918

regards,

Darren.

Re: Respawning too rapidly

MANOJ SRIVASTAVA — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:01:01 GMT

Are u able to login in single user mode ?

If no then there is some problem witht he console port , you can disable it by changing the respan to off in /etc/iniitab and after that killing the getty

ps -aef | grep respan | grep console . This is will not send any logins to the console but then u will need to call HP to cahnge the console port in the server ( essetnially the card which ahs the console port )

Manoj Srivastava

Re: Respawning too rapidly

Marco Hernandez Padilla — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:08:39 GMT

I can't go on single mode because i have one database Oracle8i that is running. And is not a problem just with console. A few minutes later, i have a this:

INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly
Will try again in 5 minutes
Check for possible errors
id: ems4 "/etc/opt/resmon/bin/pclient"

Re: Respawning too rapidly

Darren Prior — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:20:27 GMT

Hi,

When did this first start happening? What changes have been made on the system around that time?

regards,

Darren.

Re: Respawning too rapidly

Rita C Workman — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:26:58 GMT

Boy does this sound like what you posted::

Check out this thread..

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x7ccaa2db8513d6118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

Rita

Re: Respawning too rapidly

Marco Hernandez Padilla — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:37:22 GMT

Hello:
A few weeks ago I installed some patches because sybase team needed update the replication software (ver. 12.1) that we use.

Re: Respawning too rapidly

Darren Prior — Mon, 21 Oct 2002 08:53:27 GMT

Hi,

I'd check into what files were altered/replaced with those patches. If they're HP patches then check the patch text, otherwise check whatever documentation came with them. You're looking for changes to inittab or /etc/rc.config.d

regards,

Darren.