From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 27 16:16:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 019DE37B72F for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 16:16:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.219.234.63] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id xa818113 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 19:14:52 -0500 Received: from Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA04204; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 19:14:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) From: Walter Brameld To: cjclark@home.com, "Crist J. Clark" , Geir Eivind Mork Subject: Re: Out of file descriptors Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 19:14:05 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <11717686.951692933940.JavaMail.webmail1@pompel2.online.no> <20000227185505.J27458@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <20000227185505.J27458@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00022719144904.04160@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was beginning to think my mail reader was broken! This is the third message in a row that's been like this. On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Crist J. Clark wrote: > [Please wrap your lines at <80 columns. Your paragraphs are all on one > line.] > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 12:08:53AM +0100, Geir Eivind Mork wrote: > > Please answer to Geir.Eivind@mork.com since I'm not writing from my own account. > > > > When I boot my FreeBSD 3.4 which I completly reinstalled four days ago I suddenly got this message: (output from verbose boot) > > > > wd0s2: type 0xa5, start 165312, end = 1598623, size 1425312 : OK > > start_init: trying /sbin/init > > .: Out of file descriptors > > > > then a query about which shell I want to boot or return for sh (as in single-user boot). > > > > My first question is what this fault is all about? the second is how I can deal with it or am I doomed? and why if so just after a couple of days use. (all I have done were to start on a school exersice in html and that I setup apache plus php and configured the network addresses. I can't see that this could have any influence on those so called file descriptors. > > > > I would appriciate any help, please forward any answer to geir.eivind@mork.com since I don't subscribe to this forum yet. > > The typical cause for this a loop occuring in /etc/rc.conf. It usually > is a result of somone copying /etc/default/rc.conf to /etc/rc.conf > instead of just adding what they need to /etc/rc.conf. > > If this is what happened to you, it is not too tough to deal with. All > you need to do is drop into single user mode (just respond to the > prompt you are getting now to do that), and then fix your rc.conf. You > need to remove, > > ############################################################## > ### Allow local configuration override at the very end here ## > ############################################################## > # > # > > for i in ${rc_conf_files}; do > if [ -f $i ]; then > . $i > fi > done > > From the end. Then I would suggest editing rc.conf down to just > changes from /etc/defaults/rc.conf. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Walter Brameld in·tel·lec·tu·al n. Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence. Join the Army, meet interesting people, kill them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message