Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 23:44:52 +0200 From: Iani Brankov <ian@bulinfo.net> To: Dave Rossow <dave@dreksys.com> Cc: Freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd won't go multi-user Message-ID: <36F56854.E7D3A9D4@bulinfo.net> References: <003301be738a$a779a1c0$05c809c0@versa>
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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
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