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respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes Cisco FMC

faiqmahdi — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 15:39:42 GMT

Hello Team

Cisco FMC Version:

Cisco_Firepower_Management_Center_Virtual_VMware-6.2.3-83.tar.gz

VMware ESXi Version:

Re: respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes Cisco FMC

jimholla — Sun, 22 Apr 2018 16:10:03 GMT

Symptoms:

One of the following error messages are seen on the console of VMware FMC/FTD/NGIPS running on ESXI 6 and 6.5.

“INIT: Id "s1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes”

“INIT: Id "ftd1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes”

Fix:

Edit the settings of the virtual device in VSphere while powered off.
Select “Serial Port” from the “New device” drop down and click add.
Select “Use physical serial port”
Uncheck the “Connect At Power On” checkbox.
Click OK to save settings.

Re: respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes Cisco FMC

faiqmahdi — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 15:27:38 GMT

Thank you very much for your support the suggested solution worked perfectly. FMC is working perfectly since morning without any issue otherwise, it starts giving the error after the installation.

Although FMC is working fine I get an error in VM settings page:

The configured guest OS (Other 2.6.x Linux (64-bit)) for this virtual machine does not match the guest that is currently running (Other 3.x or later Linux (64-bit)). You should specify the correct guest OS to allow for guest-specific optimizations.

is this something I need to worry? I am also attaching the screenshot for your reference.

Regards

Re: respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes Cisco FMC

dani_balogh — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 15:09:02 GMT

If you map the serial port to the physical serial port the VMware DRS and vMotion will stop working for the specified VM. So I'll keep the message and have VMware vMotion working.

Re: respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes Cisco FMC

55cfffb534 — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 08:32:52 GMT

Same thing happened to me going from 6.2.x > 6.3.0 - FMC on VMware ESX 6.5u1

Add the serial port > uncheck connect > power on vm.

Re: respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes Cisco FMC

m_pfeiler — Tue, 02 May 2023 11:38:37 GMT

Still occurred on 7.2.2:
- workaround: vi /etc/inittab --> (as >expert --> root#) find line: #s1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 9600 ttyS0 vt100
#... and SET DISABLED !
Maybe will be overwritten by next update.

Re: respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes Cisco FMC

DrewM6934 — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 04:02:32 GMT

Since the Physical Serial Port is not actually connected to the VM by the fourth step;

4.Uncheck the “Connect At Power On” checkbox.

vMotion and DRS are not affected for the VM. I've performed the Accepted fix in this article and verified that I can still freely move the VM from ESXi Host to Host without any issues.