INIT: Id "s0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

[zzaappp]

I'm seeing error messages for both serial interfaces:

INIT: Id "s0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "s1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

Inittab starts agetty with the following lines:

#SERIAL CONSOLES
s0respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS0 ansi
s1respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS1 ansi

Kernel config contains the following:

#
# Character devices
#
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y

I tried the same line from inittab to see if it crashed, but it didn't. The command looked like:

/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS0 ansi

and

/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS1 ansi

I've seen the posts regarding "c1" through "c6", but I don't see anything that applies here.

Thoughts?


-z

[zzaappp]

Still happening... Tried a couple things, changes to inittab, but still getting the report.

[carlosman]

Inittab starts agetty with the following lines:

#SERIAL CONSOLES
s0respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS0 ansi
s1respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS1 ansi

Try this, since you are using /sbin/agetty:

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s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 9600 ttyS0 ansi
s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 9600 ttyS1 ansi

The "-L" parameter indicates a "Local" conection to /sbin/agetty. Here is the text from the man page for agetty:

-L

Force the line to be a local line with no need for carrier detect. This can be useful when you have a locally attached terminal where the serial line does not set the carrier detect signal.

Good luck.