From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 23 8:46:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bluebottle.calcaphon.com (calcaphon.demon.co.uk [193.237.19.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA95E37BB1B for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:46:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from n_hibma@calcaphon.com) Received: from henny.calcaphon.com (henny.calcaphon.com [10.0.0.36]) by bluebottle.calcaphon.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA54990; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 16:48:19 GMT (envelope-from n_hibma@calcaphon.com) Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 16:42:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@localhost Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Stuart Shillington Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Out of File Descriptors In-Reply-To: <20000323163147.TATQ17677.mail2.rdc3.on.home.com@cr645850-a.lndn1.on.wave.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You copied /etc/defaults/rc.conf to /etc/rc.conf. Don't. Only add values you want to change to /etc/rc.conf. /etc/defaults/rc.conf will load /etc/rc.conf after its done all the presets. Nick On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Stuart Shillington wrote: > I checked the mailing-list archives, and couldn't find anything to do > with this. I installed FreeBSD 3.4, and everything went OK. However, > when I boot, everything is fine, until this comes up > > changing root device to wd0s1a > .: out of file descriptors > > It then drops me to a shell prompt. I can then mount /usr and /var > manually. I'm dual booting with BeOS now, using BeOS's boot loader, but > I don't think that's the problem. FreeBSD is on the first (4GB) fdisk > partition. Is there any other bits of info that could help me solve > this problem? > > Stuart Shillington > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- n_hibma@webweaving.org n_hibma@freebsd.org USB project http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message