Fedora 13 Upgrade Going Badly

[philbrog]

I ran "/sbin/mingetty /dev/tty5" from single user mode, and after a few
seconds I received the shell prompt with no messages displayed.



> Message: 8
> Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 18:38:52 -0400
> From: Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com>
> Subject: Re: Fedora 13 Upgrade Going Badly
> To: Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
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> philbrog writes:
> 
>> The system installed without any error messages, then when I re-boot I
>> see
>> several error messages, then these messages repeated over and over:
>> 
>> init: tty (/dev/tty2) main process (nnnn) terminated with status 1
>> init: tty (/dev/tty2) main process (nnnn) ended, respawning
>> init: tty (/dev/tty3) main process (nnnn) terminated with status 1
>> init: tty (/dev/tty3) main process (nnnn) ended, respawning
>> init: tty (/dev/tty4) main process (nnnn) terminated with status 1
>> init: tty (/dev/tty4) main process (nnnn) ended, respawning
>> init: tty (/dev/tty5) main process (nnnn) terminated with status 1
>> init: tty (/dev/tty5) main process (nnnn) ended, respawning
>> init: tty (/dev/tty6) main process (nnnn) terminated with status 1
>> init: tty (/dev/tty6) main process (nnnn) ended, respawning
>> init: tty (/dev/tty2) main process (nnnn) terminated with status 1
>> init: tty (/dev/tty2) main process (nnnn) ended, respawning
>> init: tty (/dev/tty3) main process (nnnn) terminated with status 1
>> init: tty (/dev/tty3) main process (nnnn) ended, respawning
>> init: tty (/dev/tty4) main process (nnnn) terminated with status 1
>> init: tty (/dev/tty4) main process (nnnn) ended, respawning
>> init: tty (/dev/tty5) main process (nnnn) terminated with status 1
>> init: tty (/dev/tty5) main process (nnnn) ended, respawning
>> init: tty (/dev/tty6) main process (nnnn) terminated with status 1
>> init: tty (/dev/tty6) main process (nnnn) ended, respawning
>> 
>> etc.
>> 
>> OK, so I've re-booted into single-user mode, now what?
> 
> Do you have /sbin/mingetty installed?
> 
>>From single user mode, run "/sbin/mingetty /dev/tty5" and see what
>>happens.