On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Sunday 08 September 2002 17:33, Alex Withers wrote: > > Hello, I've recently installed Debian 3.0 on a home machine. After > > logging into the machine through xdm I open an xterm with no trouble > > but when I try to spawn another xterm it hangs for a few seconds > > before spitting out the message: "bash: fork: Resource temporarily > > unavailable". > > We had this on the list some days ago. Run ps ax and see if you've got a > huge quantity of (defunct) processes.
As it turns out that was it, in a way. I had a line in my .bashrc that went like so: PAGER=`which less`. For some reason this would cause a momentary explosion in the number of "which" processes. They would disappear in a few seconds and I would then get the vague error message. I don't know why this caused the problem as $PAGER looked fine after the hiccup. But it solved the problem when I removed the problem line... Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
