From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 18 6:48:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.binep.ac.ru (ns.binep.ac.ru [193.233.37.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A99914C13 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 06:47:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from goshik@binep.ac.ru) Received: from serv2.binep.ac.ru (serv2 [193.233.44.77]) by ns.binep.ac.ru (8.9.2/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA51241; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 17:53:16 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from goshik@binep.ac.ru) Reply-To: "Igor B. Bykhalo" From: "Igor B. Bykhalo" To: "Victor Y. Kovalenko" , Subject: Re: Out of file descriptors on bootstrap Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 17:43:35 +0300 Message-ID: <01bf1977$28719c00$0000e9c1@serv2.binep.ac.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.0913.2206 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.0913.2200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! > >I have fresh installed FreeBSD 3.2 on x86. >The bootstrap looks as usual: kernel initializes devices, has found both >SCSI disks and then (it's time to mount partitions, as I guess), I see >message >.:Out of file descriptors >and I leave in single user mode with only / mounted ... and my best guess is you haven't updated your /etc properly: /etc/defaults/rc.conf is the main file (not for edit) which calls /ect/rc.conf file. Check your rc.conf - it probably calls itself going into infinite loop... /etc/rc.conf must contain only values you want to override. Regards, Goshik _____________________________________________________ Windows 2001: "Sorry, pal, i just can't do this" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message