Subject: Re: xterms and console
To: None <port-sparc64@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.DynDNS.ORG>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 01/20/2005 08:45:40
On Jan 20, 2005, at 8:35 AM, Mehul Sanghvi wrote:
> OK now that I am at the office, I have double checked and yes, I
> have those two lines commented out all ready.  Just to be safe I
> rebooted the system again.
>
> I am still getting the messages as shown below:
>
>     Jan 20 11:29:18 batman last message repeated 2 times
>     Jan 20 11:29:29 batman ntpd[330]: kernel time sync disabled 0041
>     Jan 20 11:29:52 batman init: getty repeating too quickly on port
> /dev/console, sleeping
>     Jan 20 11:30:26 batman init: getty repeating too quickly on port
> /dev/console, sleeping
>     ...
>     ...
>     ...
>
> Any other ideas ?

Your problem isn't the syslog messages as much as it's why is
it that getty is respawning constantly on the console.

When it boots up, does it go straight into X11 (via "xdm") or
do you have to log in to the console first and then run "startx"
(or similar) to fire up X11?

	- Greg