Bug#644099: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#644099: init: Id "co" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

[Dmitry Bogatov]

control: reassign -1 fresh-install
control: forcemerge 636846 -1

[2011-10-03 11:38] Ralf Jung <ralfjung-e at gmx.de>
> On Monday 03 October 2011 01:58:15 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Sun, 02 Oct 2011, Ralf Jung wrote:
> > > On both of the machines I installed a recent Debian on (testing on my
> > > laptop, sid on my tower), I am getting the following error regularly in
> > > the syslog, and on tty1:
> > > 
> > > init: Id "co" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Googling for that message showed that many others have it, too, and that
> > > it could be silenced by uncommenting the following line from
> > > /etc/inittab
> > > 
> > > co:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty hvc0 9600 linux
> > 
> > *Un*commenting means enabling it.  Did you _disable_ it by _commenting_ it?
> > 
> > Looks like fallout from #636846...

Seems so. And definitely not bug in sysvinit, since such line is not
present in inittab, provided by sysvinit. Merging with mentioned bug.