On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 08:02:15PM -0500, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> This is annoying me greatly. Recently, my system has begun doing some
> very strange things.
>
> I've recently begun receiving messages like the following:
>
> ..: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
this is usually a process that is, for example, calling itself
recursively. You're filling up your process table until this happens.
> This prevents me from doing quite a few things; I can't even run dict
> to look up words.
exactly, you're in pretty serious trouble here.
> My system has also begun rebooting for no reason. Looking in syslog
> reveals:
>
> Oct 24 19:21:08 ethereal watchdog[168]: loadavg 27 6 2 > 12 9 6!
> Oct 24 19:21:08 ethereal watchdog[168]: shutting down the system because of error -3
> Oct 24 19:21:18 ethereal exiting on signal 15
This is not "no reason", your load average jumped to 27 in under 10
minutes (very significant jump). you have a process called watchdog
running that is rebooting you because it sees a problem with the load.
This could easily be related to the error above, start watching your load
with xosview or top, and try to determine what it is that sets off the
situation. You may have a problem with an app. or even just a bad alias
that calls itself recursively (experience speaking here).
> And, as if that weren't bad enough . . . dhcpcd-sv refuses to work
> during the boot process. It can't seem to find a dhcp server, yet
> after booting, I can load it just fine.
>
> I don't understand why any of this is happening. To my knowledge, I
> haven't made any system changes to cause this. Does anyone have any
> ideas?
This is probably unrelated to the above, and we'd need more info, like the
log output.
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