UX 11 error

[Jose Montano]

Does someone know why the following error appears on a screen of a HP9000 :

INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly.
Will try again in 5 minutes.
Check for possible errors.
id:ups0 "rtprio 0 /usr/lbin/ups_mond -f /etc/ups_conf "

[Patrick Wallek]

You've got a problem with the command to run your ups monitor in inittab. Check that command in /etc/inittab.

[Kent Ostby · Accepted solution]

Assuming that the system boots up and you can loging elsewhere and that this is the only error you are getting, then its essentially telling you that the command above is failing.

To halt the message while you are troubleshooting the script, make a backup copy of /etc/inittab then remove the line above the type: init q

This will cause the system to-read inittab and will no longer see the above line.

From there take a look at /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log and see if you have any errors about the ups in that file.

Best regards,

Kent M. Ostby

[Bill Hassell]

This is a common problem. ups_mond is trying to talk to the UPS port and there's nothing there or whatever is there is not at the right baud rate. ups_mond is getting garbage from the port and eventually terminates. Then inittab starts the process again until 10 copies have been run in less than 5 minutes. Change the ups0 line from respawn to off after the second : or simply put # infront of ups0. Then type: init q