On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 04:10:45PM +0100, Emmanuel Seyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| I've got a little problem with one of the computers I set up.
| I get this when I try to su as root on it:
| [seyman@poe seyman]$ su - root
| Password:
| bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
| bash# cat /var/log/messages
| bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
| bash#
You're out of a resource :-)
For fork, this means you're our of virtual memory (swap) or your
process table is full (it only has so many slots). If it's process
table entries you can gain one by saying:
exec su -
This will replace the current shell with the su, saving a fork.
If you have X running, exit it. (Or course, that may not be what you want,
but it _will_ release lots of VM.)
Cheers,
--
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
I am a man of high calibre; that is to say, a large bore.
- Jef Poskanzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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