Subject: Re: init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/console, sleeping
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/27/2002 12:13:27
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> > >  Sep 26 23:11:09 rainier init: getty repeating too quickly on port
> > >  /dev/console, sleeping

> > I saw this "login:" prompt in my xconsole the last couple times I logged

> Do you have X running on the first tty ?

My X is running on ttyE4. My ttyE0 is running getty and login.

I manually started xdm from the first ttyE0 (I think it was the first
one).

Anyways, I rebooted and xdm started via /etc/rc.d./xdm instead. And now I
haven't seen those messages again.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/