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Once upon a time Andreas Dilger shaped the electrons to say...

> This is a kernel problem, added since 2.4.10, and fixed in 2.4.18-pre1.
> You need to log into this system directly as root (no "su" or "sudo")
> because it seems you are trying to set a ulimit somewhere, and the
> kernel also prevents you from setting a real ulimit with glibc-2.1.

Thanks. That fixed the problem.

-D
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