On Tuesday 29 September 2009 22:47:39 Kevin Ross wrote: > change your getty to rungetty
I have been trying to do this ever since. I have Googled, tried various things but am completely stuck. I set up a trial Lenny and IceWM system on my laptop. I then installed rungetty. I next edited inittab (having firdt saved the original as inittab.old) and changed getty to rungetty. When I restarted I had neither getty nor rungetty running. I then searched everywhere I could think of for other instances of getty and could find none. I ought to have kept a list of the files I opened to look for getty; it was a long one. So I ran grep /etc overnight and half the following day but there was still no return of any kind. I have now set up a test bed on a spare desktop. I followed the same procedure and the boot-up after restart hung. The relevant part of the messages on screen was: <quote> entering runlevel 2 [cut] INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "2" 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: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes [and so on for some time. But after that only the six respawning lines were repeated.] I rebooted into level one, replaced inittab with inittab.old, and I am back to square one. *So - how do I change my getty to rungetty?* TIA Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
