[ale] Uh-oh. too many processes at boot

[David Corbin]

Debian doesn't have that file explictly, but the equivalent looks very 
normal.  Just running what's in rc?.d for the most part.

Debian upgrades are very reliable (in my previous experience).  I think 
this very well may be a function of the disk crash as much as anything else.

Chris Fowler wrote:

>I would look ar rc.sysinit then.  I doubt init would respawn too many
>processes if inittab looks normal.
>Yuo may see a respawning too fast error message.  But it appears that maybe
>the upgrade has mucked up
>your startup scripts.  I never upgrade.  There is just too many things that
>could go wrong.  Especiailly if
>you are like me and remove almost everything from /etc/rc3.d.
>
>Chris
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Corbin [mailto:dcorbin at imperitek.com]
>Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 9:01 PM
>To: Chris Fowler
>Subject: Re: [ale] Uh-oh. too many processes at boot
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>I've looked at it, it looks normal to me.  There's nothing wrong with it
>as far as I can tell.  It's more like something something else is
>spawning too many process, and the init spawns one and its overloaded.
>Is there anyway to log *all* spawned processes? I wouldn't think so, but
>I figured I'd ask.
>
>Chris Fowler wrote:
>
>>I would take a good inittab.  Like I have attached and use it as a
>>reference.  Use vi to edit your old one.
>>
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: David Corbin [mailto:dcorbin at imperitek.com]
>>Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 6:14 PM
>>To: Cfowler
>>Cc: ale at ale.org
>>Subject: Re: [ale] Uh-oh. too many processes at boot
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>>Because I know you're generally active here, I was thinking you might
>>have missed my follow up question.
>>
>>What changes do I make to inittab?
>>
>>Cfowler wrote:
>>
>>>lilo:  linux single
>>>
>>>
>>>Init will  give you a # prompt so you can fix.
>>>You'll need to edit your /etc/inittab but the filessytem is mounted
>>>read-only.
>>>
>>>Fix:
>>>
>>># mount / -o rw,remount
>>># vi /etc/inittab
>>># sync
>>># mount / -o ro,remount
>>># reboot
>>>
>>>You are done!
>>>
>>>--------- Original message --------
>>>From: "David Corbin" <dcorbin at imperitek.com>
>>>To: "ale at ale.org" <ale at ale.org>
>>>Subject: [ale] Uh-oh. too many processes at boot
>>>Date: 04-12-02 12:01
>>>
>>>I have debian system. I upgrade to the debian test (at the time, I
>>>thought I need and more recent ssh). I had my system lock up. During
>>>reboot, it took a lot of effort to successfully get through the FSCK.
>>>But, I have.
>>>
>>>Now, when I boot to runlevel 2 (the default), I end-up with "INIT: too
>>>many processes for this run level". But, if I boot to run-level 1, and
>>>then manually run the various S scripts in /etc/rc2.d, I don't have a
>>>problem.
>>>
>>>1) I don't know if I've got an upgrade problem, or a loss do to "hard
>>>shutdown". Ideas?
>>>2) How do I figure out what's doing all the spawning?
>>>
>>>Thanks.
>>>David
>>>
>>>
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