On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Brian Geisel wrote:
> > /usr/lib/libm.so: could not read symbols: Memory exhausted
> >
> > at link time. The puzzling aspect: This does not happen for other
> > users. As another user, the same thing goes through fine. This is
> > independent of whether X11 or ASCII terminals are being used. This is
> gcc
> > 2.7.2.1 in slackware 3.2 (aka kernel 2.0.29). Any words will be
> > appreciated.
>
> Are there differences between users if you do a `ulimit -a` in both
> accounts. That would be my somewhat unfounded guess.
After some fiddling around I discovered that ulimit is apparently a bash
builtin, except as an unimplemented system call. These users are both
tcsh users. After switching to bash both give the same ulimit -a output.
Thanks for the response.
Regards,
Gordon A. Gallup Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0111
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