"Respawning too fast" errors after updates

[bill at horne.net (Bill Horne)]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derek Martin" <ddm at sophic.org>


> At some point hitherto, Bill Horne hath spake thusly:
> > crw-------    1 root     root     217, 168 Apr 11  2002 /dev/tty4
> 
> Uh, yeah.  That's just plain wrong.  Try this:
> 
>   # rm /dev/tty4
>   # mknod /dev/tty4 c 4 4
> 
> I think that'll solve the problem.
> 
> - -- 
> Derek D. Martin

Derek,

It did, and thank you. 

Now, for the post-mortem: what would cause that change?

Bill