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On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 22:54:06, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:09:19 -0400, oliver gould <ogould@cs.stevens.edu>
> wrote:
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> > Hello.
> >=20
> > I have just updated kernel / userland.  Now I get the following error
> > when opening an xterm:
> >=20
> > utmp_update: Cannot update utmp entry: Resource temporarily unavailable
> > utmp_update: Cannot update utmp entry: Undefined error: 0
> > [snip - repeated ~10x]
> >=20
> > I am also attempting to su to root in X results in a `permission
> > denied', yet logging on as root on the console works fine.
> >=20
> > Furthermore, the process table is full.  There are numerous errant
> > processes clogging it:
> >=20
> > 160 ttyp1 I+   0:00.00 utmp_update ver\\000\\000\\000\\000\\000\\000\\0=
00\\000
> > [snip - repeated a LOT]
> >=20
> > The configuration is known to be good as of June 11th.
> >=20
> Were you root when you compiled?  Did you use -U?  What does
> 'ls -l /usr/bin/su' show?

Oops, good call.  I missed the -U flag on install.

Thanks.

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  .oliver

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