init command respwaning too rapidly

[sunil kattikar]

Hi,
i have problem with ES40,it is giving dma error with init command respawning too rapidly, for /usr/sbin/getty console vt100,i found that one of the network card hardware address is all FF , so i removed that card, installed new card,now dma error gone,but init error is there,i am able to boot in single usr mode.
pls suggest,

sunil

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

can you check entry in /etc/inittab for console and whether the command exists.
Init tries to start getty, but for some reason fails to do so.

greetings,

Michael

[Joris Denayer]

Sunil,

Can you verify the syntax in /etc/inittab.
You should have a line
cons:1234:respawn:/usr/sbin/getty console console vt100

The getty process gets 3 arguments
console --> line (refers to /dev/console)
console --> speed label (refers to console entry in /etc/gettydefs)
vt100 --> terminaltype

In your problemdescription, there are only 2 arguments. So, vt100 will be used as speed label and this is not defined in /etc/gettydefs.

Hope it helps

Joris

[sunil kattikar]

Hi,
i am getting error " found 21421 files with incorrect link count out of 21424 checked" in " verify usr_domain" it takes 10 minutes to verify with bad link count 1 ,link count for tag no. i am able to mount usr domain but when i tried ls command it gives error " bad number" with single usr mode
how to recover this usr domain.
fixfdmn & salvage pls suggest.
sunil

[Ralf Puchner]

boot into single user mode and use verify to check domain. Another possible way is to boot the installation disk, select "shell" and verify all domains.