On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 08:45:40 -0800, Greg Earle <earle@isolar.dyndns.org> wrote:
> 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
> 

It gets started via XDM.


cheers,

      mehul

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Mehul N. Sanghvi
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