Command respawning too rapidly.

[ronwolff]

I have an SCO OSE 5.0.6 with serial and TCP/IP connections. Suddenly today, the serial connections quit working. A user was logged on, but when she logged off she didn't get a login prompt. When I tried to display status with a ps -ft on the serial ports that failed, I got no status back. I tried to disable/re-enable ports, still no getty running and no status returned on ps -ft. I tried to reboot system, now I get an error on the system console terminals and serial ports that says:

INIT: Command respawning too rapidly. Check for errors.
co: /etc/getty/tty01 sc.m

I am still able to log on to the system with TCP/IP using ICE TCP. I have disabled all serial and console ports except for the tty01 thru tty03, but still get the above error on them. Any ideas what happened or how to fix this? My /etc/inittabs looks ok as near as I can tell. I also tried to boot unix.old, but get the same error.

 

[stanhubble]

What type of serial board are you running. digi?
This "respawning too rapidly" usually happens when the devices physically dont exist anymore but are defined in the inittab. I have seen this on digiboard "PORTS/EM" modules when a 16 port has been replace with an 8 port or when the module has been unplugged.
Check your connections and power off the system.

stan

 

[edfair]

Have run across it with others when something glitched. I think I resolved it with a sleep 2 at the end of inittab. But it was a long time ago. Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com

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[ronwolff]

Thank you for your help. It looks like there was a broken link to getty. When I ran Software Verification in the Software Manager and fixed the discrepencies, it started wroking. The broken getty link is the only thing that looked suspecious of the correctable discrepencies.

 

[wolfetone]

Hi Guys, I'm wondering is it possible to manipulate a sco-unix based database in a windows environment. This unix system was developed in 1990 and I'm hoping to put the data in let's say an oracle or access database. Is this possible?

Thanks for your help.

 

[stanhubble]

wolfetone,

what database is it?
what version of sco? (really doesn't matter for the data conversion but does for how you are going to move the data)

stan