AD278A/AD279A PCI MUX Support Guide, June 2006

Troubleshooting
Excessive Frequent getty Spawning
Chapter 2
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Excessive Frequent getty Spawning
You may encounter the following problem:
Table 2-2 Excessive Frequent getty Spawning
Problem Cause Action
The following message
appears on the console:
‘tty1a1’
getty keeps dying.
There may be a
problem
This message usually indicates
that the incoming CD signal
connected to a modem control
port with CLOCAL set keeps
toggling. The result is that the
getty process dies because the
loss of carrier spawns a new
getty. If the system detects a
getty process spawned too
frequently on a port, it prints
this message and eventually
fails to spawn a new getty.
Reset the internal retry time to its
initial value or disable the port and
then re-enable it.