From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 8 11:48:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from control.globelinks.com (control.globelinks.com [209.151.133.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 934C715F64 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 11:45:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from flattie@globelinks.com) Received: from globelinks.com (north.west.goldsluggage.com [209.151.133.160]) by control.globelinks.com (2.5 Build 2640 (Berkeley 8.8.6)/8.8.4) with ESMTP id OAA00347 for ; Wed, 08 Dec 1999 14:40:43 -0500 Message-ID: <384EB548.8369641F@globelinks.com> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 14:45:12 -0500 From: Flattie McGee X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: .: Out of file descriptors = What is this? How to fix? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey, I'm getting this error message when I boot up my box. The OS is FreeBSD 3.3 Release. I'd give you more information, but I can't get past the boot screen so I can't log in to capture anything. Booting stops at the HD mounting/checking during the boot sequence and gives me the error: .: out of file descriptors It then asks me to enter the default location of the shell.. /bin/sh, bringing me to the console? But once there.. I cannot do anything other than navigate around the hd (cd blah blah).. editing of files isn't possible, as nothing seems to work (no vi, ee, or pico).. How can I resolve this situation? *sigh* Help.. Help! *gives you a handful of hair* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message