From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 16 21: 0:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inet.chip-web.com (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B797B14E10 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 21:00:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Received: (qmail 6401 invoked from network); 17 Aug 1999 04:01:25 -0000 Received: from furball.chip-web.com (HELO bigfoot.com) (172.16.1.29) by inet.chip-web.com with SMTP; 17 Aug 1999 04:01:25 -0000 Message-ID: <37B8DE82.3E27BF@bigfoot.com> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 21:01:06 -0700 From: Ludwig Pummer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Heezeman Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: "Out of file descriptors" References: <0943E979FAF5D2118D5E0090274ED2002E73@thycon01.internal.thycon.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message