Subject: Re: proc table full, increase kern.maxproc
To: Brian McEwen <bmcewen@comcast.net>
From: Alex Pelts <alexp@broadcom.com>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 07/13/2005 10:53:21
Remount filesystem rw.
Alex
Brian McEwen wrote:
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> so, after a reboot, it was taking ...ages... for the Qube to come back
> up.
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> I popped onto the serial port, I guess I've added too much stuff to
> rc.conf :) I need to rebuild the kernel with kern.maxproc set higher.
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> I'm waiting to see if it will come up eventually, but it's taking
> forever and generating many many
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> /rc.conf cnnot vfork
> proc table is full, increase kern.maxproc
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> messages. I'm not even much past the _building databases_ dmesg. Long
> way to go, yet.
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> I gave up on it ever coming up; power toggle, abort the boot sequence,
> single user mode. OK.
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> Edit rc.conf and turn off some of the stuff I've added, that's making
> too many processes. OK.
>
> But it's a read-only filesystem, and I can't save!
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> I guess this means I also cannot cp rc.conf.orig over rc.conf.
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> what's the way out? Wait for hours for it to come up( if it ever
> will?) so I can write to the filesystem and fix the problem? there
> must be a sexy solution.
>
> thanks,
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> Brian
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