Problems during Slackware boot-up

[Tsuroerusu]

OK, I've almost got Slackware fully working on one of my two hacked Xbox'es, but I've run into a little problem, during the boot-up on my TV (aka the monitor in this case) I never get to a login prompt, after it loads the keymap it just sits there, and after a few minutes starts giving me messages like this, one by one with a few minutes in-between:

INIT: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel

Any ideas anyone?

[Linc]

OK, I've almost got Slackware fully working on one of my two hacked Xbox'es, but I've run into a little problem, during the boot-up on my TV (aka the monitor in this case) I never get to a login prompt, after it loads the keymap it just sits there, and after a few minutes starts giving me messages like this, one by one with a few minutes in-between:

INIT: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel

Any ideas anyone?

Sounds to me like the "c1" is your console and the system is having a problem opening up a console. It's trying and failing and respawning so fast that after a couple minutes it just gives up. What does your /etc/inittab look like?

[Tsuroerusu]

Sounds to me like the "c1" is your console and the system is having a problem opening up a console. It's trying and failing and respawning so fast that after a couple minutes it just gives up. What does your /etc/inittab look like?

It's the stock version that comes with Slackware:

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#
# inittab       This file describes how the INIT process should set up
#               the system in a certain run-level.
#
# Version:      @(#)inittab             2.04    17/05/93        MvS
#                                       2.10    02/10/95        PV
#                                       3.00    02/06/1999      PV
#                                       4.00    04/10/2002      PV
#
# Author:       Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org>
# Modified by:  Patrick J. Volkerding, <volkerdi@slackware.com>
#

# These are the default runlevels in Slackware:
#   0 = halt
#   1 = single user mode
#   2 = unused (but configured the same as runlevel 3)
#   3 = multiuser mode (default Slackware runlevel)
#   4 = X11 with KDM/GDM/XDM (session managers)
#   5 = unused (but configured the same as runlevel 3)
#   6 = reboot

# Default runlevel. (Do not set to 0 or 6)
id:3:initdefault:

# System initialization (runs when system boots).
si:S:sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.S

# Script to run when going single user (runlevel 1).
su:1S:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc.K

# Script to run when going multi user.
rc:2345:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc.M

# What to do at the "Three Finger Salute".
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t5 -r now

# Runlevel 0 halts the system.
l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc.0

# Runlevel 6 reboots the system.
l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc.6

# What to do when power fails.
pf::powerfail:/sbin/genpowerfail start

# If power is back, cancel the running shutdown.
pg::powerokwait:/sbin/genpowerfail stop

# These are the standard console login getties in multiuser mode:
c1:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
c2:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
c3:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
c4:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
c5:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
c6:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux

# Local serial lines:
#s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100
#s2:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L ttyS1 9600 vt100

# Dialup lines:
#d1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -mt60 38400,19200,9600,2400,1200 ttyS0 vt100
#d2:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -mt60 38400,19200,9600,2400,1200 ttyS1 vt100

# Runlevel 4 used to be for an X window only system, until we discovered
# that it throws init into a loop that keeps your load avg at least 1 all
# the time. Thus, there is now one getty opened on tty6. Hopefully no one
# will notice. ;^)
# It might not be bad to have one text console anyway, in case something
# happens to X.
x1:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc.4

# End of /etc/inittab

The funny thing is that when I boot the normal Slackware kernel on a PC it works fine, but when I boot my own kernel with Xbox patches on the Xbox, this problem comes up.

[Linc]

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# These are the standard console login getties in multiuser mode:
c1:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
# End of /etc/inittab

The funny thing is that when I boot the normal Slackware kernel on a PC it works fine, but when I boot my own kernel with Xbox patches on the Xbox, this problem comes up.

OK, thats what I thought. Now you need to make sure that there is a tty1 device that is getting or has been created, and that /sbin/agetty exists. And perhaps wether or not your console can handle 38400 baud..

[Tsuroerusu]

Never mind this issue, after almost seven hours of hackin' around with different config files and reading log files, I give up!

But 'ey, I did get to have a good try at Slackware, so that's good , 'ey?

For me personally, Slackware as a desktop system is just too much work to maintain, but for a file server, or something like that, I think I'd give it a serious consideration in the future.