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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:23:28AM -0600, John T Copeland wrote:
> 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. 

It was basically a unix version of the y2k problem, unixtime went over
2^30 seconds yesterday, and simpleinit did some calculations with that
time that lead to a value bigger than 2^32 which caused an integer
overflow. I hope we won't see too many of those problems :)

> 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 :)
> > >
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