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charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 27/12/2010 14:11, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On 9.0-CURRENT r216732 ia64 I get this message: >=20 > % grep getty /var/log/messages | tail > Dec 27 13:26:57 mech-cluster241 init: getty repeating too quickly on po= rt /dev/ttyv8, sleeping 30 secs > Dec 27 13:27:27 mech-cluster241 init: getty repeating too quickly on po= rt /dev/ttyv8, sleeping 30 secs > Dec 27 13:27:57 mech-cluster241 init: getty repeating too quickly on po= rt /dev/ttyv8, sleeping 30 secs > Dec 27 13:45:22 mech-cluster241 init: getty repeating too quickly on po= rt /dev/ttyv8, sleeping 30 secs > Dec 27 13:45:53 mech-cluster241 init: getty repeating too quickly on po= rt /dev/ttyv8, sleeping 30 secs > Dec 27 13:46:23 mech-cluster241 init: getty repeating too quickly on po= rt /dev/ttyv8, sleeping 30 secs > Dec 27 13:52:55 mech-cluster241 init: getty repeating too quickly on po= rt /dev/ttyv8, sleeping 30 secs > Dec 27 13:53:25 mech-cluster241 init: getty repeating too quickly on po= rt /dev/ttyv8, sleeping 30 secs > Dec 27 13:57:56 mech-cluster241 init: getty repeating too quickly on po= rt /dev/ttyv8, sleeping 30 secs > Dec 27 13:58:26 mech-cluster241 init: getty repeating too quickly on po= rt /dev/ttyv8, sleeping 30 secs > % >=20 > % grep ttyv8 /etc/ttys=20 > ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/xdm" xterm on secure >=20 > % cat /var/log/xdm.log=20 > % >=20 > And no other indication of anything going wrong. >=20 > I've seen quite a few similar reports on the net, > but no conclusive answer. >=20 > What exactly does the above message mean? Usually that xdm is failing to start. getty will keep trying to run it, and wil fill your log files with messages of failure until you fix the problem. I'd turn off xdm on that vty temporarily, [change 'on' to 'off' in that line in /etc/ttys, and 'kill -HUP 1' to restart init] and then try running xdm manually from the console to see what happens. It could be all sorts of things causing the problem. > Should I be worried? Only if you desperately need to log into an X windows session on the console of that machine. Otherwise you should be able to log in over the network and run any X applications displaying remotely on the machine you logged in from. 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