[sclug] Cent OS 5.3 Server Edition Problem

[Alex Butcher]

On Sat, 3 Oct 2009, Simon Huggins wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 10:07:10PM +0100, Matthew Cox wrote:
>> It installed okay (via net install disk), however on boot it does a check
>> for hardware changes, and after that it gives the following error which
>> repeats and talks about disabling it for 5 minutes:
>
>> 'cannot execute: /sbin/mingetty'
>
>> I haven't been able to find anything directly involving the same problem as
>> me, but was wondering if anyone has any pointers as to where to go from
>> here?

[snip]

> For our sins, we have CentOS at work and I've never seen this before.

Me neither. Googling suggests that the root (or /tmp, if you've separated
it) filesystem being full or the disc having failed may be root causes.

HTH,
Alex