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:
> 
> 
> so, after  a reboot, it was taking ...ages... for the Qube to come  back 
> up.
> 
> 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.
> 
> I'm waiting to see if it will come up eventually, but it's taking  
> forever and generating many many
> 
> /rc.conf cnnot vfork
> proc table is full, increase kern.maxproc
> 
> messages.  I'm not even much past the _building databases_ dmesg.   Long 
> way to go, yet.
> 
> I gave up on it ever coming up; power toggle, abort the boot  sequence, 
> single user mode.  OK.
> 
> 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!
> 
> I guess this means I also cannot cp rc.conf.orig over rc.conf.
> 
> 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,
> 
> Brian
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