Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:01:09 -0500 From: Ken Stevenson <ken@allenmyland.com> To: Dave <dmehler26@woh.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getty repeating to quickly Message-ID: <43F5D725.1000608@allenmyland.com> In-Reply-To: <006301c6338f$7eff2c70$0200a8c0@satellite> References: <006301c6338f$7eff2c70$0200a8c0@satellite>
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Dave wrote: > Hello, > I've got a box running 6.0-RELEASE. I'm trying to hook serial > consoles in to it, and have set up /etc/ttys and /boot/device.hints to > allow me to do this. Yet, in /var/log/messages i keep seeing this error: > > "Init: getty repeating to quickly on port /dev/ttyd0, sleeping 30 secs" > > This is a repeating msg and i never get my serial console. I've > confirmed that the port is showing up via dmesg, the system's bios has > it on the correct i/o address and irq, and the pnp option is turned off. > Any ideas? > Thanks. > Dave. > I'm not sure what the problem is, but I believe the message means that getty is starting, immediately crashing, and then respawning, over and over. The OS then throttles that process to avoid consuming too many resources. I got the same error when I was trying to get mgetty to work with PPP. After I fixed my configuration problems, the problem went away. -- Ken Stevenson Allen-Myland Inc.
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