From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Feb 3 13:30:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA21572 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 13:30:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA21556; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 13:30:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 13:30:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199702032130.NAA21556@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Subject: Re: bin/2633: fsck -p in /etc/rc fails with cannot alloc nnnn by Reply-To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR bin/2633; it has been noted by GNATS. From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: Shimon@i-Connect.Net (Simon Shapiro) Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/2633: fsck -p in /etc/rc fails with cannot alloc nnnn by Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 22:15:02 +0100 As Simon Shapiro wrote: > > Does the error go away if you enable swapping before? > > If you look in /etc/rc, you will see that swap -a runs before the fsck. You'd like to say, i should *really* have looked before? :-) On another chance, does fsck simply run out of VM limits? See ulimit... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)