init[1]: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

[najkon]

Hi,

I moved whole system from another physical machine to another.
I made it through using fsarchiver (a great tools for backup FS ) with option savefs

the process of transferring data passed without a problem. I installed from scratch grub2 and make a new config file.
system got up without any problem, services work - great!
but...
and here is the problem because from time to time without cause hangs my server, and the only thing I see in console its magic
init[1]: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
repeated endlessly. The only solution is to reboot the server..

There is my question - how resolv that? where can be a problem?

There is my config file

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############# /etc/inittab
# Default runlevel.
id:3:initdefault:

# System initialization, mount local filesystems, etc.
si::sysinit:/sbin/openrc sysinit

# Further system initialization, brings up the boot runlevel.
rc::bootwait:/sbin/openrc boot

l0:0:wait:/sbin/openrc shutdown 
l0s:0:wait:/sbin/halt -dhnp
l1:1:wait:/sbin/openrc single
l2:2:wait:/sbin/openrc nonetwork
l3:3:wait:/sbin/openrc default
l4:4:wait:/sbin/openrc default
l5:5:wait:/sbin/openrc default
l6:6:wait:/sbin/openrc reboot
l6r:6:wait:/sbin/reboot -dkn
#z6:6:respawn:/sbin/sulogin

# new-style single-user
su0:S:wait:/sbin/openrc single
su1:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin

# TERMINALS
#x1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 console linux
c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux

# SERIAL CONSOLES
s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 115200 ttyS0 vt100
#s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 115200 ttyS1 vt100

# What to do at the "Three Finger Salute".
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -r now

and output from ps aux |grep getty

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root      4099  0.0  0.0 117504  1828 tty1     Ss+  00:07   0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
root      4100  0.0  0.0 117504  1832 tty2     Ss+  00:07   0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
root      4101  0.0  0.0 117504  1904 tty3     Ss+  00:07   0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
root      4102  0.0  0.0 117504  1908 tty4     Ss+  00:07   0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
root      4103  0.0  0.0 117504  1824 tty5     Ss+  00:07   0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
root      4104  0.0  0.0 117504  1840 tty6     Ss+  00:07   0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
root      4105  0.0  0.0  12608  1840 ttyS0    Ss+  00:07   0:00 /sbin/agetty -L 115200 ttyS0 vt100

- Yes, I use a serial console for TERM
- and for extra security also use ikvm connection
- I do not have access to the machine physically

[eccerr0r]

Sounds like you have no physical console virtual terminals set up in the kernel for your server? Do you want to login to console and use it?

CONFIG_VT and associated?

If you don't have or need the virtual consoles, you can remove the lines from inittab.

[najkon]

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# zcat /proc/config.gz |grep CONFIG_V
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE_SLEEP=y
CONFIG_VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING=y

If I remove virtual consoles (#TERMINALS) then the server didin't boot - unpack kernel from GRUB Menu and nothing - screen dark, the server is not responding to ICMP

[eccerr0r]

Usually the "respawning too fast" warning is when the init program dies too quickly, in this case it's agetty. You should only be getting no more than 1 warning every 5 minutes...

If that virtual terminal actually works (c1, i.e., /dev/tty1) then likely your ... keyboard emulator (KVM?) is sending characters to end your logins prematurely? I don't know your exact physical setup.

If /dev/tty1 does not work at any time, even after fresh boot, then perhaps your agetty binary is broken or, as you have seemed to verify OK, your /dev/ttyX virtual terminals are broken...