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smartboyathome

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Registered: 2007-12-23

Posts: 334

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Id "c1" is refreshing to fast, disabled for 5 minutes

Does anyone know how to fix this. I found one article on this online, but it said to comment out the offending virtual terminals. This is happening on all of them (c1 - c6), it says.

bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: Id "c1" is refreshing to fast, disabled for 5 minutes

There is probably something wrong with your getty (agetty is the default one). The way init works is that if agetty on a virtual terminal end (or crashes), it is restarted again. Usually, this only happens when you log out, but if there's a problem with it, it just keeps crashing, being restarted, etc... If this keeps happening for a (short) while, init disables that terminal, and you get the message you posted above.

Check the logs. Check that agetty is working (it's in util-linux-ng package). Check your inittab.

iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: Id "c1" is refreshing to fast, disabled for 5 minutes

I get this error sometimes on my HP laptop. Booting with noapic fixes the issue but also makes everything else run kinda screwy.