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Re: fork problem


Out of resources on your system?

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 12:19:49PM -0400, J. David Boyd wrote:
> 
> Since yesterday, (and, _of course_, I vehemently deny changing anything in my
> system), I've been plagued with
> 
> bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
> 
> and an unadorned bash prompt.  
> 
> If I type exit: 
> 
> Sometimes it continues on to show my regular bash prompt, which leads me to
> think that some call in my .profile failed.
> 
> Sometimes, though, typing exit actually exits.
> 
> Sometimes, if I just wait, the startup continues and my expected prompt shows
> up.
> 
> What would cause a fork to be temporarily unavailable?
> 
> Dave
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