From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 21 16:11:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cserv.oksys.bg (unknown [195.230.8.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97EF114EBE for ; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 16:10:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ian@bulinfo.net) Received: from bulinfo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cserv.oksys.bg (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA42181; Sun, 21 Mar 1999 23:44:53 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ian@bulinfo.net) Message-ID: <36F56854.E7D3A9D4@bulinfo.net> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 23:44:52 +0200 From: Iani Brankov Organization: ok systems X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Rossow Cc: Freebsd-questions Subject: Re: freebsd won't go multi-user References: <003301be738a$a779a1c0$05c809c0@versa> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dave Rossow wrote: > > Hi, can anyone help point me in the right direction? I'm having a problem > using FreeBSD 3.1. I installed from the latest CDRom using the 'impatient' > method. I've setup two systems, one as a database server, the other as a > webserver. Neither are as yet in active production use yet. The install > worked fine and everything seemed fine. However, sometime shortly after I > started installing various software packages I started getting syslog > message like the following: > > Mar 21 02:00:24 data syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system > Mar 21 02:00:24 data last message repeated 3 times > Mar 21 02:00:24 data /kernel: file: table is full > Mar 21 02:00:24 data syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system > Mar 21 02:00:24 data last message repeated 3 times > Mar 21 02:00:24 data /kernel: file: table is full > Mar 21 02:00:24 data syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system > Mar 21 02:00:24 data last message repeated 3 times > Mar 21 02:00:24 data /kernel: file: table is full > Mar 21 02:00:24 data last message repeated 12 times > > I get the same messages on both systems and after trying to reboot one of > them, I find it will now only boot into single user mode. Is this some kind > of blocking factor problem? Do I need to re-create the filesystems or > something? Anybody experienced this before? Any help would be greatly > appreciated. > I've got similar messages preventing multi-user mode after making the world from 3.0 to 3.1. The problem was recursive calling of the /etc/rc.conf file. In 3.1 the /etc/rc.conf file must contain only the needed differences from /etc/defaults/rc.conf (not the whole file). If your /etc/rc.conf file is from an older version (<=3.0) it may cause a similar problem. --iani To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message