From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 23 2:58:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4508155D5 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 02:58:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from localhost.hell.gr (patr530-a090.otenet.gr [195.167.115.90]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA29625 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:58:27 +0200 (EET) Received: (qmail 9317 invoked by uid 1001); 23 Dec 1999 10:24:25 -0000 Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:24:25 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Rich Wilson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Out of file descriptors at boot Message-ID: <19991223122425.B9183@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <19991222194142.8666.qmail@web1905.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <19991222194142.8666.qmail@web1905.mail.yahoo.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message