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

[David Corbin]

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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