From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 17 17:03:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA16453 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 17:03:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA16445 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 17:03:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA12471; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 11:32:18 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA11590; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 11:32:18 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981218113218.C486@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 11:32:18 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Pavel V. Antipov" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: getty repeating too quickly (was: Question about process init :() References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Pavel V. Antipov on Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 10:52:27AM +0300 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 17 December 1998 at 10:52:27 +0300, Pavel V. Antipov wrote: > Hi ! > > I research booting progress and I have one problem. > When FreeBSD booting, proceess init says: > > init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv0 > > I have /usr/libexec/getty, full set of varios config files in /etc, > configured device /dev/ttyv0. > > Why process init abuses ? Don't shoot the messenger. init is just reporting the problem, but it's getty which is stopping every time it is started. This is almost certainly because you have a getty on a serial line with nothing connected to it. Disable any gettys not connected to a line. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message