brian wildasinn wrote:
> 
> Ooops! i meant "out of file descriptors". Problem's still there--help!
>                        ^^^^
> That may sound trivial, but my guess is that a note like this means some
> files need to get dumped or deleated.  Could that be so?
> 
> > A Q700 running multiuser netbsd 1.2G (060197 current) system on a jaz 
> > removeable disk no longer gives an option of choosing [vt220] anymore. 
> > After the "Welcome to NetBSD" it now says,
> > 
> > I've been doing lots of reboots and using "Shutdown now" and Cmd+d; I
> > also have chat script debugging on for trouble shooting ppp (with PAP),
> > so the /var/log/ has lots of comments. doesn't debugging go to the /tmp 
> > directory which gets emptied each reboot? Attempting ppp in X11R6 has been
> > easier by killing an xterm rather than reboot. 

Hmmm...the "out of file descriptors" I think occurs because of per process
limits on the number of open file descriptors, although there is a system
limit on them as well.  It may be that you have some kind of daemon
process that is going out of control and opening a zillion files????  I
assume that this behavior doesn't happen under single-user?

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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