Phil said: > My first Debian machine, running potato, used for experimentation and > storing files displayed an error message at the consle logon screen that > went something like: > > Login: VFS: files open exceeded 4096 > > and then I couldn't login rebooting solved the problem . . .so far. what > was tat about? probably an out of control process eating all of the system's resources, check the logs it may give some hints. nate