Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:24:25 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@hades.hell.gr> To: Rich Wilson <wk633@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Out of file descriptors at boot Message-ID: <19991223122425.B9183@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <19991222194142.8666.qmail@web1905.mail.yahoo.com> References: <19991222194142.8666.qmail@web1905.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 11:41:42AM -0800, Rich Wilson wrote:
> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE on a laptop.
> It already has W95 on one partition, and I have it
> dual booting. I put a bare bones /bin install set on
> the DOS partition, and installed from that (I can only
> use floppy or CD, not both at once). I then installed
> the CD-Rom, and was able to install /src/sys I wanted
> to rebuild the kernel with a copy of the PCCARD
> config.
>
> When I boot now, I get
>
> changing root device to wd0s2a
> .: Out of file descriptors
>
> I can still mount file systems manually, and make a
> kernel, but before it finishes, it runs out of swap space.
One of the usual traps of copying /etc/defaults/rc.conf to your
/etc/rc.conf is that /etc/defaults/rc.conf contains a line that says:
rc_conf_files="/etc/rc.conf /etc/rc.conf.local"
and at the end of the script the code:
for i in ${rc_conf_files}; do
if [ -f $i ]; then
. $i
fi
done
which will reload rc.conf from within rc.conf !
Try removing "rc.conf" from your rc_conf_files, making it:
rc_conf_files="/etc/rc.conf.local"
and you should be fine.
--
Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr>
"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle]
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