"Respawning too fast" errors after updates

[cdoerbec at cso.fmr.com (Christoph Doerbeck A242369)]

Q's:
  No further details on what it is that's respawning?   If you're
  running a X11 session, did you CTL-ATL-F1 to see what's on the console?
  Run xconsole while it's happening.... see if anything new pops up.

  Maybe enabling some additional logging in /etc/syslog.conf might 
  give better clues?  

  Can you post your /etc/inittab & a complete block of the errors?

  Last, have you rebooted since the upgrade?

I don't see why MySQL would be respawning.  That's usually an init problem.
My initial instinct would be not waste time with MySQL.  Either it starts
or it doesn't...  it's shouldn't be respawning...

> Last Thursday, I manually started the RH "up2date" program in response
> to the RedHat errata note about glibc and MySQL. The up2date run went
> without error:
> 
> [Thu Nov  7 22:41:16 2002] up2date installing packages: 
> ['MAKEDEV-3.3-4', 
> 'dev-3.3-4', 
> 'glibc-2.2.4-31', 
> 'glibc-common-2.2.4-31', 
> 'glibc-devel-2.2.4-31', 
> 'iptables-1.2.5-3', 
> 'krb5-devel-1.2.2-15', 
> 'krb5-libs-1.2.2-15', 
> 'modutils-2.4.18-3.7x', 
> 'nscd-2.2.4-31', 
> 'xinetd-2.3.9-0.71', 
> 'ypserv-2.5-2.7x'] 
> 
> Google and rh archive searches indicate that a "respawning" issue may
> be a problem with glibc, but I didn't find a specific mention of my
> situation.
> 
> I commented out the tty4, tty5, and tty6 lines in /etc/inittab, and 
> that has eliminated the problem for now.
>