[COLUG] cannot execute binary file

Rick Troth rmt at casita.net
Tue Dec 4 18:20:31 EST 2007


s/blain/blank/g

-- R;

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Rick Troth wrote:

> 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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