Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 19:14:05 -0500 From: Walter Brameld <brameld@twave.net> To: cjclark@home.com, "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>, Geir Eivind Mork <gemork@online.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Out of file descriptors Message-ID: <00022719144904.04160@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> In-Reply-To: <20000227185505.J27458@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <11717686.951692933940.JavaMail.webmail1@pompel2.online.no> <20000227185505.J27458@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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I was beginning to think my mail reader was broken! This is the third
message in a row that's been like this.
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Crist
J. Clark wrote: > [Please wrap your lines at <80 columns. Your
paragraphs are all on one > line.]
>
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 12:08:53AM +0100, Geir Eivind Mork wrote:
> > Please answer to Geir.Eivind@mork.com since I'm not writing from my own account.
> >
> > When I boot my FreeBSD 3.4 which I completly reinstalled four days ago I suddenly got this message: (output from verbose boot)
> >
> > wd0s2: type 0xa5, start 165312, end = 1598623, size 1425312 : OK
> > start_init: trying /sbin/init
> > .: Out of file descriptors
> >
> > then a query about which shell I want to boot or return for sh (as in single-user boot).
> >
> > My first question is what this fault is all about? the second is how I can deal with it or am I doomed? and why if so just after a couple of days use. (all I have done were to start on a school exersice in html and that I setup apache plus php and configured the network addresses. I can't see that this could have any influence on those so called file descriptors.
> >
> > I would appriciate any help, please forward any answer to geir.eivind@mork.com since I don't subscribe to this forum yet.
>
> The typical cause for this a loop occuring in /etc/rc.conf. It usually
> is a result of somone copying /etc/default/rc.conf to /etc/rc.conf
> instead of just adding what they need to /etc/rc.conf.
>
> If this is what happened to you, it is not too tough to deal with. All
> you need to do is drop into single user mode (just respond to the
> prompt you are getting now to do that), and then fix your rc.conf. You
> need to remove,
>
> ##############################################################
> ### Allow local configuration override at the very end here ##
> ##############################################################
> #
> #
>
> for i in ${rc_conf_files}; do
> if [ -f $i ]; then
> . $i
> fi
> done
>
> From the end. Then I would suggest editing rc.conf down to just
> changes from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
> --
> Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
>
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