Re: su no longer working after dist-upgrade
i got that when my ulimits were too strict, try killing processes to free
up resources (see ulimit for more info) either that or you may be out of
memory..
nate
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Marc D Chapman wrote:
chap00 >Recently I performed a apt-get dist-upgrade on my potato box. Since then
chap00 >whenever I 'su' I am unable to do anything from the shell prompt. It
chap00 >always gives me an error like:
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chap00 > bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
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chap00 >This makes life extremely more difficult for the purpose of upgrading
chap00 >without logging out. Has anybody else had this problem? Any ideas as to
chap00 >why this is happening, or how to fix it? TIA....
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