Re: [Xen-devel] Debian Problem

[Dave <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > I'm currently trying to get a Debian image running under Xen.  I've
> > followed the directions that are available in the user guide but when I
> > go to boot the system it doesn't finish booting.  Immediatly after the
> > cron daemon starts it appears to hang and shortly after that errors are
> > printed to the console that init is respawning to fast.
> > INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
> 
> That's not init spawning too fast, but the processes defined with those ids in
> /etc/inittab.  In this case, they are gettys.  Disabling them(using # to
> comment them out) will solve this non-problem.
> 
> I also don't think cron is hanging.

I'd expect that it just happens that cron is the last thing in the boot 
sequence, and that it's simply not printing any additional messages after 
that point.

This sounds like init is trying to spawn the gettys and they're failing to 
open the tty devices -> are you using devfs in the Debian image?  
Ensure that the lines in inittab which look like this:

1:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1

..for the console gettys, are pointing at a tty device (in this case /dev/tty1)
which exists.



        Hope this helps,

                Dave

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