Re: no more processes crash

Re: no more processes crash

[Michel Lanners]

On  26 Aug, this message from brad allison echoed through cyberspace:
> This is a bad bug/crash.  I suddenly am in a state of "No more processes".
> 
> I'm not running much.  Just about 10 aterms, netscape and aim.
> 
[snip]
> Last thing I did was started a compile of kerberos.  So the last command I
> ran was "make".

This might not be a Linux bug, but rather a Makefile bug in kerberos.
I've had this before, endless loops in a Makefile, so make restarts
itself all over again, until... you found the answer ;-).

Michel

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Re: no more processes crash

[brad allison]

On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Wulf Hofbauer wrote:

> > I'm not running much.  Just about 10 aterms, netscape and aim.
> 
> Are you using LinuxPPC 1999? The utempter package as distributed by LinuxPPC
> is broken, xterms for example will never terminate (except by kill -9) and
> will fill up entries in the process table. I don't know if LinuxPPC has a
> fix for it (I doubt it), but you'll find the fix at www.redhat.com.

Anyone know if there's a fix for this?

I searched on lists.linuxppc.org for utempter and found no mention of this
problem.

I found rpm updates for utempter on www.redhat.com for i386, sparc, and
alpha but not for linuxppc.

-b



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Re: no more processes crash

[brad allison]

I found the bug here.  AIM (tik) tries to play a sound whenever you get an
Instant Message.  I just noticed that sound is not working on my box.

So all these IM sounds got queued up and hung, resulting in a no more
processes error.

Now I'm not sure why sound doesn't work. I have a G3 rev2 B&W running
Shaw's 2.2.6 kernel.

aumix doesn't seem to be working correctly:
[jackal@isis ~]$ aumix -q
vol 216, 88
speaker 216, 88
line 0, 0, P
mic 0, 0, P
cd 0, 0, R
pcm2 15, 0
[jackal@isis ~]$ aumix -v 0 0
[jackal@isis ~]$ aumix -p 0 0
[jackal@isis ~]$ aumix -q
vol 216, 88
speaker 216, 88
line 0, 0, P
mic 0, 0, P
cd 0, 0, R
pcm2 15, 0



On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, brad allison wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Wulf Hofbauer wrote:
> 
> > > I'm not running much.  Just about 10 aterms, netscape and aim.
> > 
> > Are you using LinuxPPC 1999? The utempter package as distributed by LinuxPPC
> > is broken, xterms for example will never terminate (except by kill -9) and
> > will fill up entries in the process table. I don't know if LinuxPPC has a
> > fix for it (I doubt it), but you'll find the fix at www.redhat.com.
> 
> Anyone know if there's a fix for this?
> 
> I searched on lists.linuxppc.org for utempter and found no mention of this
> problem.
> 
> I found rpm updates for utempter on www.redhat.com for i386, sparc, and
> alpha but not for linuxppc.
> 
> -b

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