Subject: Re: init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/console, sleeping
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/27/2002 20:10:52
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:13:35AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> 
> >  Sep 26 23:11:09 rainier init: getty repeating too quickly on port
> >  /dev/console, sleeping
> 
> More information .. I forgot to mention that my xconsole says:
> 
>  Console log for rainier.reedmedia.net
> 
>  NetBSD/i386 (rainier.reedmedia.net) (console)
> 
>  login: Sep 26 23:04:21 rainier last message repeated 18 times
> 
> I saw this "login:" prompt in my xconsole the last couple times I logged
> in. I don't think I have seen this before (when running 1.5.3 on this
> box).

Do you have X running on the first tty ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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