[COLUG] cannot execute binary file

[Rick Troth]

As the note came to me,
there was a blain between "/sbin" and "/mingetty".
If your inittab really contains a blank (or more likely,
some non-printable that did not show up for me in Pine)
then you'll want to [re]edit that and clean it up.

-- R;

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Thomas W. Cranston wrote:

> Regarding CentOS 5
>
> I am getting:
>
> /sbin /mingetty: /sbin /mingetty: cannot execute binary file
>
> repeated many times then:
>
> INIT Id: "3" responding too fast:  disabled for 5 minutes
>
> This is then followed by:
>
> /sbin /mingetty: /sbin /mingetty: cannot execute binary file
>
> repeated many times then:
>
> INIT: Id "4" responding too fast:  disabled for 5 minutes
>
> /sbin /mingetty: /sbin /mingetty: cannot execute binary file (many times)
>
> INIT: Id "5" responding too fast:  disabled for 5 minutes
>
> /sbin /mingetty: /sbin /mingetty: cannot execute binary file (many times)
>
> INIT: Id "6" responding too fast:  disabled for 5 minutes
>
> /sbin /mingetty: /sbin /mingetty: cannot execute binary file (many times)
>
>
> This is then followed by:
>
> INIT: Id "1" responding too fast:  disabled for 5 minutes
>
> INIT: Id "2" responding too fast:  disabled for 5 minutes
>
>
> INIT: no more processes left on this runlevel
>
> I rebooted w/the installation media, and chose F5 Rescue.
>
> The rescue environment will attempt to mount the Linux Distro unde
> /mnt/sys/image, and I can make any changes required to my system.
>
> What changes do I need to make? What do I look for to determine what
> changes need to be made?
>
> I do not have much on this installation, and can afford to do a fresh
> install, but would like to know how to fix this problem for future
> reference.
>
> Tom
>
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