From owner-freebsd-questions  Mon Dec 15 16:34:46 1997
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA02215
          for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 16:34:46 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions)
Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA02209
          for <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 16:34:43 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from root@implode.root.com)
Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA00669;
	Mon, 15 Dec 1997 16:37:09 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <199712160037.QAA00669@implode.root.com>
To: Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net>
cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: boot problem 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 15 Dec 1997 16:12:32 PST."
             <199712160012.QAA18012@monk.via.net> 
From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
Reply-To: dg@root.com
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 16:37:09 -0800
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

>
>As the machine is booting, I get the following message as the disks are 
>being checked:
>
>  cannot alloc 5898242 bytes for lncntp
>
>This convinces FreeBSD that something went wrong, and that a fsck needs 
>to be performed in a subshell.

   The problem is caused by the rlimit's being too conservative in
/etc/login.conf. Change the "daemon" entry so that it has much more data
and stack. I had the same problem on wcarchive with a 18.2GB CCD that I
had built.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project