inittab respawing too fast and disabled

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On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Gert Doering wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 10:31:44AM +0530, C.Jagadish wrote:
> > But still I have the problem of 
> >   "INIT Id s2: respwaning too fast diabled for 5 minutes".
> 
> So what does the mgetty log file say?
> 
> > I am running mgetty as follows
> > 
> >    s2:12345:respawn:/usr/local/bin/mgetty -D -x2 /dev/ttyS1

Is the device connected and on? :-)

Or better yet, is the device accessable on that port? Isn't there an IRQ
conflict? between 2 devices on the same port, and the other one is
winning?

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