In article <19990202074230.B372@jocelyn.rhein.de> is@jocelyn.rhein.de (Ignatios Souvatzis) writes:
>While trying to upgrade last night:
>
>
>all ===> lib/csu/c++
>all ===> lib/libarch
>all ===> lib/libbz2
>all ===> lib/libc
>building standard c library
>/usr/bin/nm: _strtoq.o: Too many open files in system
>/usr/bin/nm: _strtouq.o: Too many open files in system
>/usr/bin/nm: a64l.o: Too many open files in system
>/usr/bin/nm: abort.o: Too many open files in system
>/usr/bin/nm: atexit.o: Too many open files in system
>...
>
>syslog shows:
>
>Feb  2 01:46:30 jocelyn syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system
>Feb  2 01:46:30 jocelyn syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system
>Feb  2 01:46:30 jocelyn /netbsd: vnode: table is full
>
>etc etc.
>
>any clue on whats wrong?

Yeah, binutils or ar/nm is not good about closing open files. I've noticed that
too. Someone needs to look at this.

christos