[NBLUG/talk] Older Server

[Mark Street]

Hi,init console input output error respawning

This does not look good from my point of view.  I have seen this before when 
configuring vgetty with voice/fax modems way back when.

The key is to find out exactly where the boot is failing.. it is in inittab.  
I can tell you right now it is not making it past ID si - system 
initialization

Looking at the output the id1 - 6 are the different run levels 
from /etc/inittab, prior to those running init runs rc.sysinit.  Look to 
inittab and rc.sysinit.  You might check to see if /etc/rc.sysinit exists... 
and you might also check to see if you have a /dev/console, it might be good 
to check inittab.

If you look at the /etc/rc.sysinit script you will see the order in which 
these things happen.  You can even check the binaries that are executed... 
and see if they exist.... and are executable.

keywords
/etc/inittab
/etc/rc.sysinit
/dev/console

More screen sludge and a few log files would help if you can gather some up.

On Thursday January 17 2008, Walter Hansen wrote:
> It's still not booting and I'll post where it grinds down after this, but
> my question is if there is anything I should try to revive it or if I
> should just start over and re-install everything on it? I should have had
> a good complete backup, but this was really a low priority test server
> that we had just gotten to do something useful (no excuse). Also does it
> sound like my guestimate is correct and the 15,000+ files creates problems
> for ext3?
>
> RH 7.3 (2.4.18-3)
> from screen:
>
> INIT: version 2.84 booting
> INIT: can not execute "etc/rc.d/rc"
> INIT: open(/dev/console): input/output error
> INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT: Id "6" 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: no more processes left in this runlevel
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