Can't boot: "respawning too fast" error - help needed

amca01 · 2009-07-07 08:40:15

Hi there,

I just tried to reboot my laptop, only to first get the error message:

/bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

which is then followed by:

INIT: Id "c4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: No more processes left in this runlevel
INIT: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

and so on...

Does anybody know what's going on, and how I can fix it? I'd love to have my laptop working again!

Thanks,
-A.

Chokkan · 2009-07-07 14:06:41

I have the same problem

toad · 2009-07-07 14:26:23

Does that help?

http://www.google.com/search?q=respawni … =firefox-a

Peasantoid · 2009-07-07 14:38:21

Update bash.

3.x relies on version 5 of readline, but since you no longer have that installed (you probably updated it to version 6), bash can't find the necessary library and fails. This makes init choke.

Last edited by Peasantoid (2009-07-07 14:40:03)

Chokkan · 2009-07-08 07:52:22

I had to manually install an older version of readline using

pacman -Ufd http://archlinux.alouche.net/repo/core/os/i686/readline-5.2.013-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz

This allowed me to boot into my system and then upgrade bash, which inturn upgraded readline.

amca01 · 2009-07-08 11:36:45

^ You, sir, are a marvel! I tip my hat and bow in your direction. That worked a treat.

Thank you!

-A.

skazhy · 2009-07-09 09:03:48

I am getting the same error, on boot time. I can't get into terminal to install readline. I don't have my arch 2009.02 cd with me, only a knoppix 6.0.1 livecd. Can I fix my boot errors in knoppix?

amca01 · 2009-07-09 09:52:38

What I did was a slight variation on Chokkan's command. First I booted the machine with my old Arch CD. Then I mounted my root partition:

mount -t ext3 /dev/sda3 /mnt

then got the network up and running:

ifconfig eth1
dhcpcd eth1

after which

pacman -r /mnt -Ufd http://archlinux.alouche.net/repo/core/os/i686/readline-5.2.013-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz

You probably can fix the boot error with knoppix; you can mount your root partition as above, and then install the old readline onto it.

Good luck!

-A.

Last edited by amca01 (2009-07-09 09:54:34)

Chokkan · 2009-07-09 14:01:09

I couldn't even start my network. Someone mentioned that going through the installation menus to the point where you choose installation source and have it set up the network for you was the solution. I love that person (wherever they are).

bl0ndynek · 2009-07-19 01:47:38

how Your internet provider check you ? mac, pppoe ??

The Avatar of Time · 2009-08-05 08:14:26

Hello,

I am having this same issue. I just did a complete system update a couple hours ago. It had been well over a month since I'd updated my system, due to Internet issues, and now, well, I'm having the same issue.

I booted up my Arch Live CD (2009.02 FTP x86_64), mounted my root and home partitions, got the network up and running, and ran:

pacman -r /mnt -Ufd http://www.schlunix.org/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/readline-5.2.013-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

Which 'upgraded' readline. I used schlunix.org because archlinux.alouche.net no longer exists. Also obviously I chose the x86_64 package since I'm running Arch64.

I then exited the Live CD and rebooted. However this did not help me, in fact in a way it's worse now. Before it was starting all the daemons before acting up and now it's not making it that far. Here's the error I'm getting:

kinit: Mounted root 9reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
INIT: version 2.86 booting
/bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
/bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
INIT: Id "c2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel

Before I was just getting:

INIT: Id "c2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel

Right after the last daemon had been loaded. Best as I can remember at least. Obviously I had to type these by hand since I'm using a seperate computer to post this. After the five minutes the same thing happens again and eventually the screen turns black, is non-responsive, and I have to hard reboot.

Any ideas what I'm missing or doing wrong? Would it be simpler to just do a reinstall? I read that one person reinstalled and had no more issues, but I find that a bit odd. I should think if the problem is caused by needing an older version of readline that a fresh install would yield the same error? Or is it that a file somewhere isn't getting updated?

I have several extra hard drives (for my media-server, as I call it), so reinstalling won't take long since I can backup the pacman cache to one of those drives (I have fairly slow Internet.....) and use it to install from. But if reinstalling won't solve the problem there would be no point to doing it.

Thanks for any help.

The Avatar of Time · 2009-08-05 14:39:02

Well I did a reinstall and rebooted and that worked. So I assume things are fine. Gonna install X and a DE now.

gallow · 2009-08-11 03:48:42

toad wrote:

Does that help?
http://www.google.com/search?q=respawni … =firefox-a

No.

Actually, it does indicate that you don't have a clue what the problem is, so I guess it does help, in a way.

greenfish · 2009-08-30 15:10:10

gallow wrote:

toad wrote:
Does that help?
http://www.google.com/search?q=respawni … =firefox-a
No.
Actually, it does indicate that you don't have a clue what the problem is, so I guess it does help, in a way.

What a completly useless post, i'm suprised you weren't moderated. What exactly is your problem? toad was only trying to help, you know this is a community right or perhaps you don't even know the meaning behind the word, here let me enlighten you:

com⋅mu⋅ni⋅ty
/kəˈmyunɪti/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [kuh-myoo-ni-tee] Sharing, participation, and fellowship.

I can boot my system if I edit rc.local to boot x after a few daemons in the background otherwise my system stalls at:

Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Id "c2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

using: pacman 3.3.0-3 readline 6.0.004-1

Last edited by greenfish (2009-08-30 15:16:51)

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Can't boot: "respawning too fast" error - help needed

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