From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: Custom install of RH7 on laptop. System booted fine; laptop later suspended, on resume system report lost interrupt for /dev/hda, kernel panic, etc. I powered off the system & back on again, and suddenly I get a message saying: iptables v1.1.1: Unknown arg '-q' Try 'iptables-h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. Then everything fails, because this message keeps repeating for everything that tries to start. Finally reaches point where it says "INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes" (and that is repeated for Id 1-6). I've tried setting all the network options in /etc/sysctl to =0, I've tried commenting those lines out, I've tried renaming /sbin/iptables to /sbin/iptables.old. No success. I even get the error when booting into single user mode (ie lilo: linux single). Only then it's: INIT: version 2.78 booting iptables v1.1.1: Unknown arg '-r' Try 'iptables-h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. Any ideas on how to solve this? How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Reboot (happens every reboot, even single user mode) 2. 3. Actual Results: iptables v1.1.1: Unknown arg '-q' Try iptables '-h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. [FAILED] <-- (this is for every init script) /etc/rc3.d/S99local: /etc/issue: Read-only file system /etc/rc3.d/S99local: /etc/issue: Read-only file system /etc/rc3.d/S99local: /etc/issue: Read-only file system cp: cannot remove old like to '/etc/issue.net': Read only file system /etc/rc3.d/S99local: /etc/issue: Read-only file system INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Expected Results: [SUCCESS] <- For all init's Additional info: Initial problem seemed to be related to hard-drive suspending and APM not correctly working. Simple change in apmd should fix this (according to apmd docs) but now cannot get past boot (can get to shell in single user mode, however, but then it is not running apm).
I can't reproduce this - looks like your /etc/inittab or crontab is severely misconfigured. iptables is supposed to start once (at bootup), and does that just fine for everyone here. The messages you're getting INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes definitely don't have anything to do with iptables (this seems to indicate mingetty won't start). My guess is your filesystem is severely corrupted.