Re: What's changed in su/bash? "bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable"

[Josh Wilmes <josh@hitchhiker.org>]

Interesting.   Try "ulimit -a".  Any strange limits set?

--Josh


> Josh Wilmes wrote:
>   >
>   >Are you possibly out of memory?  (perhaps a process has run away and gobbl
ed
>       > 
>   >it up)?
> 
> No; the problem is only if I try to get an interactive su session:
> 
>    olly@linda$ cat /proc/meminfo
>            total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
>    Mem:  131403776 123076608  8327168 54677504  4624384 49696768
>    Swap: 269676544 44146688 225529856
>    MemTotal:    128324 kB
>    MemFree:       8132 kB
>    MemShared:    53396 kB
>    Buffers:       4516 kB
>    Cached:       48532 kB
>    SwapTotal:   263356 kB
>    SwapFree:    220244 kB
>    olly@linda$ su -c ls
>    Password: 
>    0.0=1.29172.exmh      exmh.1563.html   filevV2bSY    pg7
>    ...
>    olly@linda$ su
>    Password: 
>    linda:/tmp# ls
>    bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
>    linda:/tmp#  cd 
>    linda:~# 
> 
> but, as you see, shell built-ins still work.
> 
>  
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