From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 11 18:26:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hyperhost.net (ether.lightrealm.com [207.159.132.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8154014EA0 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 18:26:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patseal@hyperhost.net) Received: from port4.annex8.radix.net (port4.annex8.radix.net [205.252.108.4]) by hyperhost.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA24648; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 21:23:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 21:23:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Seal To: Marcio Carlos Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: --> Big Problem... In-Reply-To: <37108849.6E8E1059@solar.com.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Something is probably wrong with your /etc/rc.conf. You copied if from /etc/defaults didn't you!! It automatically keeps on including itself until too many are open that it gives you that error. Boot into single user and delete the last few lines of /etc/rc.conf Good luck! ------------------------------------ _____________________________________ Patrick Seal |"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make | really crappy operating systems." Hyperhost - http://www.hyperhost.net| -Linus Torvalds hosting and Design http://www.freebsd.org - http://www.linux.org On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Marcio Carlos wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like you to reply directly to my e-mail. I am subscribed to a > local list here, but it is not working this weekend, and I DO NEED an > urgent help here. > > I installed FreeBSD in a P 133 box, with 128 RAM, SCSI AHA-2XXX, HD > SCSI 2Gb. > > Everything was great ! I installed the system, booted, installed a > lot of packages, installed windowmaker, configured a lot of > applications, XFreem etc... Everything was working great, but when I dia > a final reboot, the system starts to probe the hardware, and after the > message "waiting for SCSI devices to probe", the system stops. After > some seconds, the system says something like (i don't remeber the exact > message now) : "insuficient file descriptos", and asks that shells > prompt, but I cannot do much things. mount all works, but I cannot do > anithing further, if I exit nothing happens. > > I'd like some help here, I don't know what's gooing on, and if I > reinstall the system, who knows what will happens ? > > Thanks, > Alex Antao. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message