spawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes
 

I'm learning to make a lfs with 2 disk boot/root

I'm made it with the kernel and lilo. It can boot up, ask me to
enter the root disk. But after the init starts, it print messages

ld 1 : spawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes
ld 2 : spawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes
No more processes in this run level

Then nothing's happen. It can't start the virtual console

What's wrong ??

Can anyone help me ? pleaze

I'm using The Linux Bootdisk howto by Tom Fawcett as reference
to make this lfs

inittab:
--------
id:2:initdefault
si::sysinit:/etc/rc
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 9600 tty1
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 9600 tty2

Thank you :)

Well the process you defined for 1 and 2 are dying constantly. Kinda hard to see why from only the information you provided. Here is a list of things you might want to check:

- Any descriptive error messages in the log files?
- Can the /sbin/getty executable be run properly (permissions + x bit)
- Can the /sbin/getty executable find and load any shared libraries it uses. Might wanna run 'ldd /sbin/getty' to find out.
- I use agetty and the parameters on that are the other way around, first tty1 then 9600. Might need to check the manpage on that.
- Is the /dev/tty1 present and has the proper permissions
- Is the /bin/login executable present and able to run

Well that's about all I can think of for now. Might want to read the man pages of getty and login to find out if you have everything setup properly for them to run.

Thank you for your respon. :D

There are some question in my head from your answer.

Where can I find the error log because the disk I used for
the root can't be mounted ?? :(

I made the root disk with the command
dd if=rootfs.gz of=/dev/fdo bs=1k

in this case rootfs.gz is the commpresed root I made for this purpose.

I already check all the library needed, and the permission,
but still .....

Oh yeah I forget, this is the exact message :
INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast : disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast : disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: no more processes left in this run level

PS: I don't use the PAM and NSS

Thanx:newbie:

Ok well you got me on the logging one, it's just something I always tell people to do.
If logging will go anywhere it's probably gonna be to a ramdisk anyways so you will lose it after a reboot.

Well anyways the next thing I would try doing is to change the first line to:
1:2345:respawn:/bin/bash </dev/tty1 >/dev/tty1
Or whatever other shell you are using.

That should get init to start a shell on tty1 without having to login.
You can try to start the other programs from there if it gets that far.

Sorry, I haven't had time to try it. Your answer is the same as the answer from my friends, they suggest me to change the getty with the shell, except without the "</dev/tty1 >/dev/tty1".

It works but there was an error message :
"#sh: can't access tty; job control turned off"

but anyway thx. :)

spawning too fast
 

we can solve the problem by recreating the terminals
the command is

/dev/makedev /dev/tty1

same for all other terminals just put 2,3,4,5,6,7 instead of 1

then restart the system
:Pengy: srini