netbsd-help: init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/console, sleeping

Subject: init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/console, sleeping
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/26/2002 23:42:35

My NetBSD/i386 1.6 box is logging:

 Sep 26 23:11:09 rainier init: getty repeating too quickly on port
 /dev/console, sleeping
 Sep 26 23:13:25 rainier last message repeated 4 times
 Sep 26 23:23:38 rainier last message repeated 18 times
 Sep 26 23:33:50 rainier last message repeated 18 times

My old /etc/ttys config had:
console        "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         pc3     off secure

My new /etc/ttys has:
console        "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         vt100   on secure

Any ideas on what causes this getty to start more than every five
seconds?

Thanks,

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/