Thread: respawning too fast

Why i get this message in /var/log/messages

medo init: Id "pg" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

Tadej Panjtar wrote:
  >Why i get this message in /var/log/messages
  >
  >medo init: Id "pg" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

This is a message from the init process.  Look at the file /etc/inittab
which must contain a respawned command (probably on a line that begins
'pg:') that is failing.

Run the failing command in an ordinary window to find out what is going
wrong.

If you are not the system administrator, you should pass the problem to
him.

Read the man page on init, to understand what it does.


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> Why i get this message in /var/log/messages
>
> medo init: Id "pg" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>

In order to get to the cause, try to execute the command line from
/etc/innittab manually, without redirecting errors to /dev/null. It is
most probably because of the lock file, .s.PGSQL.*, left by a dead or
interrupted postmaster.

--Gene