In article <20060621020918.GA29090@cs.stevens.edu>,
oliver gould  <ogould@cs.stevens.edu> wrote:
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>Hello.
>
>I have just updated kernel / userland.  Now I get the following error
>when opening an xterm:
>
>utmp_update: Cannot update utmp entry: Resource temporarily unavailable
>utmp_update: Cannot update utmp entry: Undefined error: 0
>[snip - repeated ~10x]
>
>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.
>
>Furthermore, the process table is full.  There are numerous errant
>processes clogging it:
>
>160 ttyp1 I+   0:00.00 utmp_update ver\\000\\000\\000\\000\\000\\000\\000\\000
>[snip - repeated a LOT]
>
>The configuration is known to be good as of June 11th.

You are probably missing the setuid bits in all your binaries.

christos