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  • From: John T Copeland <johnc AT neto.com>
  • To: David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>, Robert Helgesson <rycee AT home.se>
  • Cc: sm-users AT lists.ibiblio.org, sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [SM-Discuss] Re: [SM-Users] Simpleinit problem. Important!
  • Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 09:23:28 -0600

Glad we got this promptly fixed. Can anyone tell me why it had been working
for days and just all of a sudden started "spawning too fast"? Very curious.

Also something kept changing the system clock; hwclock?
JohnC

On Sunday 11 January 2004 01:51 am, David Kowis wrote:
> There's a new version of simpleinit-msb (1.2) out that says it fixes it.
> I've tested it on a box and it works!
>
> http://www.winterdrache.de/linux/newboot/
>
> All I did was change the version to 1.2
>
> Hope that helps
> Dave
>
> Quoting Robert Helgesson <rycee AT home.se>:
> > Due to an integer overflow error the init program no longer works
> > properly. When booting the entire process will function well up to the
> > point where the login prompt should appear. At that time a number of
> > error messages will appear, they will look like the following lines.
> >
> > respawning: "tty1" too fast: quenching entry
> > respawning: "tty2" too fast: quenching entry
> > respawning: "tty3" too fast: quenching entry
> > ... and so on
> >
> > No login prompts appear and the only way to get access to the computer
> > is by using /bin/bash as a the init program or possibly through a rescue
> > disk.
> >
> > The attached patch modifies the simpleinit-msb spell to apply a fix
> > during a cast. The fix should also soon be available in the grimoires.
> > Updating is very strongly recommended :)
> >
> > --
> > / Robert Helgesson |-- rycee AT home.se --\
> > \-- GPG Key ID: 41E95A5B --| http://www.rycee.cx/ /
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