INIT: command is respawning too rapidly

[Murthy Bhavaraju]

I get this message when ever i try to boot the machine.

>>INIT: command is respawning too rapidly
>>Will try again in 5 minutes
>>check for possible errors
>>id:samd "usr/sam/lbin/samd #system mgmt daemon"

During the boot as well as if i run set_parms i get this vague error that line 25: ')' not expected. accross various files. RPC daemon and few others FAIL during start up. Is there anyway that i can fix these issues?

thanks

[Ermin Borovac]

Firstly check /etc/inittab file.

samd entry should look like this.

samd:23456:respawn:/usr/sam/lbin/samd # system mgmt daemon

Once you change /etc/inittab file, run 'init q' to force init to re-read the file.

As for the set_parms error, try running it with sh -x, it might give you a clue about the error.

# /sbin/sh -x /sbin/set_parms

[Murthy Bhavaraju]

The errors include:

Initialize loadable modules
--------------------------------
sbin/rc1.d/S112kminit[206]: Syntax error at line 25: '(' not expected.

setting hostname
-------------------------------
sbin/rc1.d/S320hostname[36]: Syntax error at line 25: '(' not expected

Configuring PFIL
-----------------------------
sbin/rc2.d/S130pfilboot[5]: Syntax error at line 25: '(' not expected

Starting IPFilter
-------------------------------
sbin/rc2.d/S131lipboot[6]: Syntax error at line 25: '(' not expected

configure LAN interfaces
-----------------------------------
sbin/rc2.d/S340net[134]: Syntax error at line 25: '(' not expected

etc ... for name server daemon, multicast routing daemon, internet services daemon, dynamic routing daemon, discover protocol, RPC and so on...!

any help is greatly appreciated! thanks

[Murthy Bhavaraju]

the listing looks exactly the same

samd:23456:respawn:/usr/lbin/samd #system mgmt daemon

[Ermin Borovac · Accepted solution]

It's probably one of the files in /etc/rc.config.d. Check that you don't have any core files or temporary files in there.

[Ermin Borovac]

Try the following to find the culprit.

# cd /etc/rc.config.d
# for i in *
> do
> echo $i
> . ./$i
> done

File name printed before "syntax error" is the one you should have a look at.

[Murthy Bhavaraju]

Thanks for the help you were right it was the /etc/rc.config.d/netconf and i missed a '#' while editing. I finnaly went through the rc.log line by line (1000! of them) ... and saw that it is not able to update the new config and was trying to revert to the old config. Thanks for you help again!

[Thayanidhi]

See this thread for samd problem.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=739865

Also this document.

http://www4.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000062922569

Regds
TT

[Murthy Bhavaraju]

Please see the post above