Re: Kernel: Unable to load interpreter

1999-02-22 Thread Jiri Baum
Chris Kaltwasser: > Does someone know the meaning of this message? I don't know what the message means, but I got it when I ran out of virtual memory. A way to check how much memory is free is using Shift-ScrollLock (with the default keyboard map). This works even if there isn't enough memory fre

Re: Kernel: Unable to load interpreter

1999-02-17 Thread Chris Kaltwasser
This has certainly been a learning experience. Yes, I'm guessing RAM or swap could have been an issue. I'll probably add some more RAM since this is the only machine I'm running Linux on which has only 16 MB of RAM. And thanks for letting me know about the 'free' command! I'd wondered for a lon

Re: Kernel: Unable to load interpreter

1999-02-17 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Chris Kaltwasser wrote: > Does someone know the meaning of this message? I've got a machine running > hamm that's been doing this fairly often the past couple of days. The hard > drive starts thrashing, and just about everything I try to do becomes > impossible. Just now I

RE: Kernel: Unable to load interpreter

1999-02-17 Thread Chris Kaltwasser
Thanks to everyone who wrote with suggestions re. my problem. At this point I'm guessing that either the guy who was using the computer for some Web development at the time was killing it with a misbehaving PHP script (he said he found he had an infinite while() loop, though I can't see how that e

RE: Kernel: Unable to load interpreter

1999-02-17 Thread Shaleh
> > Thoughts? > Call me confused. I have no idea. If you use irc, #debian on irc.us.openprojects.net is a nice place to visit.

RE: Kernel: Unable to load interpreter

1999-02-17 Thread Chris Kaltwasser
I do not have a /proc/sys/fs directory. There are kernel, net, and vm in /proc/sys, but no "fs". By "odd", do you mean that something is not working the way it ought? What, in general, is the "Unable to load interpreter" message about? Is that only triggered by the kernel when the miscbin or jav

RE: Kernel: Unable to load interpreter

1999-02-17 Thread Odin
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Chris Kaltwasser wrote: I had a similar problem once. It was because I had the wrong hostname entered into my smail configuration. Mail would come to my host... smail would say "This isn't for me!" and go look for the host that the mail was supposed to go to... then my machi

RE: Kernel: Unable to load interpreter

1999-02-17 Thread Shaleh
>#cat /var/log/kern.log > > Feb 16 15:55:03 pvs29 kernel: Unable to load interpreter > Feb 16 15:55:33 pvs29 last message repeated 4 times > Feb 16 15:55:46 pvs29 kernel: Unable to load interpreter > Feb 16 15:59:09 pvs29 kernel: Unable to load interpreter > Feb 16 15:59:13 pvs29 last message r

RE: Kernel: Unable to load interpreter

1999-02-17 Thread Chris Kaltwasser
OK --- #last -7 /var/log/daemon.log Feb 16 18:05:26 pvs29 in.ftpd[162]: connect from jefferson.VOTE-SMART.ORG Feb 17 11:20:52 pvs29 init: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Feb 17 11:25:36 pvs29 in.ftpd[408]: connect from jefferson.VOTE-SMART.ORG Feb 17 11:30:35 pvs29 init: Id "2"

RE: Kernel: Unable to load interpreter

1999-02-17 Thread Shaleh
> > I've looked in the log files and all I see are messages pertaining to the > error itself -- I don't see anything that would seem to indicate a cause. Paste a couple of the errors directly from the log. It may not be a kernel error.

RE: Kernel: Unable to load interpreter

1999-02-17 Thread Chris Kaltwasser
Shaleh - I do not recall enabling either -- I don't even know what "misc binary" support would mean. How can I check? Anyway, let me describe what's happening in more detail: The machine is a P-166 w/ not a lot of RAM (16 MB) and Debian 2.0 is the only OS on the hard drive. I think I installed

RE: Kernel: Unable to load interpreter

1999-02-17 Thread Shaleh
On 17-Feb-99 Chris Kaltwasser wrote: > Does someone know the meaning of this message? I've got a machine running > hamm that's been doing this fairly often the past couple of days. The hard > drive starts thrashing, and just about everything I try to do becomes > impossible. Just now I had to d