"Respawning too fast" errors after updates

[ron.peterson at yellowbank.com]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 05:08:17PM -0500, Bill Horne wrote:

> Last Thursday, I manually started the RH "up2date" program in response
> to the RedHat errata note about glibc and MySQL. The up2date run went
> without error:
>
> However, when I rebooted I started getting these errors:
> 
>     INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.

I had a machine begin randomly rebooting or halting after running
up2date once.  Recompiling the kernel made the problem go away.

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