Id “c1″ respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

You may see the tty device error messages like ‘/dev/tty1: cannot open as standard input: Permission denied’ in the server logs and many more like

Jan 10 xx:xx:xx [agetty] /dev/tty1: cannot open as standard input: Permission denied
Jan 10 xx:xx:xx [agetty] /dev/tty2: cannot open as standard input: Permission denied
Jan 10 xx:xx:xx [agetty] /dev/tty3: cannot open as standard input: Permission denied
Jan 10 xx:xx:xx [init] Id “c1″ respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Jan 10 xx:xx:xx [init] Id “c2″ respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Jan 10 xx:xx:xx [init] Id “c3″ respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

The tty “Permission denied” error message is because of the misconfiguration in your /etc/inittab file in which case you have to edit the file and comment the agetty/getty lines. Login to your server as root and edit the file:

pico /etc/inittab

Search for the lines

c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux

and comment the lines by placing a # in front of them.

Save the file and you won’t see the messages.

OR

you may try re-creating the terminals again from shell as root. Login to your server as root and execute the command:

/dev/makedev /dev/tty1

and replace 1 with 2,3,4,5,6,7 for other terminals and reboot the server.