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Re: INIT:Entering runlevel:2 failed



On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 20:09, Robin Gerard wrote:
> hello,
> I run potato 2.2r2 and have upgraded partially
> with woody.
> All ran fine, but after my system crashed, linux
> boot correctly until:
>  ttyS00 .....
>  ttyS01 ....
> 
> after a while
> 
> /dev/ttyS00 ..
> /dev/ttyS01 ..
> .............
> Cleaning /tmp /var/lock /var/run
> 
> after a while
> 
> INIT: Entering runlevel:2
> after a while
> ...............
> starting internet superserver:inet/etc/rc2.d/S20inetd:
> xmalloc: cannot allocate 428 bytes
> unable to load interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2
> ...............
> 
> Finaly i can work as root but not as user.
> 
> when I do shutdown i get :
> .............
> Deconfiguring network interfaces:done
> Desactiving swap...VM:do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd
> VM:do_try_to_free_pages failed for swapoff
> swapoff: /dev/hda2: cannot allocate memory
> ......
> is it possible that i repair my system ?

I'd run memtest on that sytem ASAP.  It sounds to me like you're running
out of memory at boot.

--mike






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