From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 11 16: 7:29 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 EDA9A1523A for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 16:07:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ludwigp@toy.chip-web.com) Received: (qmail 16263 invoked from network); 11 May 1999 23:07:26 -0000 Received: from speedy.chip-web.com (HELO speedy) (172.16.1.1) by inet.chip-web.com with SMTP; 11 May 1999 23:07:26 -0000 Message-Id: <4.1.19990511160435.00a75a50@mail-r> X-Sender: ludwigp@toy.chip-web.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 16:07:42 -0700 To: willd@telusplanet.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: Out of file descriptors ??????? In-Reply-To: <37367712.3c22.0@telusplanet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:05 PM 5/9/1999 , Will Downs wrote: >I hoping someone will be able to give a novice like me some advice. I rebooted >my freebsd machine and I keep getting this error " out of file descriptors ", >after the kernel is trying to " changing root device to wd0s1a ". > >Does anybody have an idea how I could fix this ? It would be helpful if you could tell us which version of FreeBSD you're using and what you did/changed just prior to getting this error. I ask because this error is quite common after having just upgraded to 3.1 or 3.x-STABLE, and the solution is to boot into single user mode and modify your /etc/rc.conf to stop calling itself (it's near the end of the file). Of course, if people upgraded their /etc directory when they upgraded the rest of their system, they wouldn't have this problem. --Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) ICQ UIN: 692441 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message