upgrading from RH7.1 to 7.2 gets "respawning too fast"

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From: B. Paris
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 12:03

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After upgrading my Redhat7.1 to 7.2, I get the following message looping
on reboot:

...
INIT: entering level 3
INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
...
and so on every 5 minutes...

Hopefully, I can boot on an alternate untouched "/dev/sdb1" so I still
have access to files on the upgraded filesystems (/dev/sda1 and others).

My previous kernel (2.4.17) leaves intouched by this upgrade, and is the
one booting. I wonder if there were something wrong with mingetty
(mingetty is tried to be respawn from init) ??

note: entering level 3 is correct; so it's not a problem of starting X.


Thank's for any help.
-- 
B. Paris

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From: paris@ipsp.ucl.ac.be (B. Paris)
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Subject: upgrading from RH7.1 to 7.2 gets "respawning too fast"
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