DEC 3000/600 DU 4.0 respawning problem

From: Ray Lauff <ray_at_thunder.ocis.temple.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 13:22:43 -0400 (EDT)

Greetings folks.

I was greeted today by a dead Alpha 3000/600 workstation when I arrived
to work this morning. (The screen was blank, pressing a key didn't
bring up the password dialog, and I couldn't telnet into the system from
other systems). The system is running Digital Unix 4.0.

When I rebooted the system the boot process hung with the following message:

INIT: Command is respawing too rapidly. Check for possible errors.
id: cons "/usr/sbin/getty console console vt100"

I haven't changed anything on the system recently (that I can remember :))
so I am not sure what this message is referring to. Can anyone suggest
a course of action?

TIA
ray
-- 
Ray Lauff : ray_at_thunder.ocis.temple.edu : (215) 204-5678 : Temple University
Received on Fri Aug 23 1996 - 19:42:44 NZST

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed Nov 08 2023 - 11:53:47 NZDT