INIT: Id "co" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

[Gallomimia]

So I looked at my VNC virtual console tonight and found this message spammed on every line:

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INIT: Id "co" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

I googled it and it said it's related to the serial console, and also that it might be related to the way XEN deals with consoles. That's the thing I'm looking at my server thru right this second right?

Well, first the only info I found was how to disable this service. Sounds like something I don't actually want to do.

I wonder what you guys know about it, what it means, whether its related to the recent XEN update, how to stop the console spam, and so on.

[Edge100x]

Yes, that is related to the domU inappropriately trying to spawn a virtualized Xen console that it can't create. You can safely ignore it, or if it's really bothering you, you can comment out the line in "/etc/inittab" containing the text "hvc0".

I recommend that you administer your server through SSH, as it is much faster and more flexible than the VNC console.