what means of error msg "INIT:Id "SV" respawning too fast:disable for 5 minutes"

[frederick van tagero]

INIT:Id "SV" respawning too fast:disable for 5 minutes,

this msg echo again and again to the console, but server is also working, what is the problem?

thanks,
Frederick van targero

[John Poff · Accepted solution]

Hi,

My guess is that message is coming from an entry in your /etc/inittab file. Something is getting spawned by init from inittab and is crashing. After something crashes a certain number of times in a short time frame, init will complain and wait 5 minutes before trying again. I suggest looking at /etc/inittab and trying to track down what program is crashing.

JP

[Balaji N]

hello,
problem is with your inittab. as John points, there is some process which is not getting started or is getting killed.

check out the contents of the inittab and see if you are able to find any problems. check your logs and if you still dont find any, post ur inittab. let us see if we can debug.

hth
-balaji

[U.SivaKumar_2]

Hi ,

edit /etc/inittab and look for a line starting with SV .

Find out what process that line is related to. If you dont use that process simply comment that line by putting # at the very start of that line and save the file.

now

#init q

The message should go away now.

In other case,

If you need that process to be run then find out the reason why the process is getting killed everytime when it is spawned by init by analysing the logfiles and rectifiy the error conditions.

regards,
U.SivaKumar

[Sergejs Svitnevs]

Look in your /etc/inittab file. Somewhere there is a line labelled
"SV" which is trying to run some command in "respawn" mode, but since this command exits as soon as it is run init winds up trying to
continually run it. Could you post that line from /etc/inittab ?

Regards,
Sergejs

[Michael Steele_2]

You should have an /etc/inittab.orig. If so rename your current inittab and copy in the original using the current as a template.