Re: Debian Problem

["Jan Kundrát" <jan.kundrat@fzu.cz>]

Michael McCabe wrote:
> Hello
> I'm currently trying to get a Debian image running under Xen.  I've 
> followed the directions that are available in the user guide but when I 
> go to boot the system it doesn't finish booting.  Immediatly after the 
> cron daemon starts it appears to hang and shortly after that errors are 
> printed to the console that init is respawning to fast. 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
> 
> The only error before that is this. hwclock is unable to get I/O port 
> access:  the iopl(3) call failed.

This error means that the processes defined in /etc/inittab are dying to 
fast, and as init is trying to respawn them, some limit is reached. I'm 
not using Debian, bu tgoogle search returned something about X stuff - 
are you sure you aren't trying to start X from the default runlevel? Or 
some other application which has problems running under Xen?

-jkt

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