From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Feb 1 05:30:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA20735 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 05:30:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA20698; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 05:30:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 05:30:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199702011330.FAA20698@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Subject: Re: bin/2633: fsck -p in /etc/rc fails with cannot alloc nnnn bytes for lncntp Reply-To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR bin/2633; it has been noted by GNATS. From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: shimon@i-Connect.Net Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/2633: fsck -p in /etc/rc fails with cannot alloc nnnn bytes for lncntp Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 14:13:09 +0100 As shimon@i-Connect.Net wrote: > When booting, fsck -p (in /etc/rc) fails with ``cannot alloc > nnnn bytes for lncntp'' error, thus makes it impossible to boot into > init level 2. This happens consistently for file systems which are > about 4GB large. Does the error go away if you enable swapping before? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)