Get rid of: * Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

[adkap]

If you check your daemon.log and syslog, you may notice tens of thousands of messages similiar to:

* Id "#" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

This irritates me, as it adds megs to the syslog, making it difficult to read/use. Its definitely caused by Xen. I think Xen kills tty's >1 since they are not very useful on vps's. To get rid of the messages, you must tell init not to spawn tty's other than tty1.

In /etc/inittab comment out these lines.
2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6
Reboot. Be sure to leave the line starting with 1, thats your console!

[OrenT]

Just kill -HUP 1 to reload configuration

[bitdifferent]

For benefit of future searchers:

if you get the similar error:

Jun 23 09:50:21 conqueror init: tty6 main process (2735) terminated with status 1
Jun 23 09:50:21 conqueror init: tty6 main process ended, respawning

and you already have these ttys disabled in /etc/inittab, have a look at this page:

http://yoonkit.blogspot.com/2007/02/rapid-respawns.html

That worked for me.

[Evilheart]

hmmmm.......