Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 21:01:06 -0700 From: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com> To: Robert Heezeman <roberth@thycon.com.au> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: "Out of file descriptors" Message-ID: <37B8DE82.3E27BF@bigfoot.com> References: <0943E979FAF5D2118D5E0090274ED2002E73@thycon01.internal.thycon.com.au>
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Robert Heezeman wrote: > > during the boot process the system prematurely stops and comes up with the > following error and then the # prompt... > > "Out of file descriptors" > > How can I fix this There's apparently something running as part of your rc.* scripts that's eating up all of your file descriptors. If memory serves me right, this happened to quite a few people after they upgraded their FreeBSD but didn't update their /etc properly, or just copied /etc/defaults/rc.conf to /etc/rc.conf. /etc/rc.conf would keep calling itself over and over again. The quick solution was to remove the line in /etc/rc.conf that called itself --Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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