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have you been messing with ulimit settings anywhere? e.g. in the 
/etc/rc.d/rc.* scripts?

the message you're seeing is normally caused by having
  ulimit -n > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
e.g. you did
  ulimit -n unlimited
or
  ulimit -n <some-big-number>
somewhere.

Find the place where you changed ulimit settings, otherwise, try increasing 
the file-max value:

echo 32768 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
echo 131072 > /proc/sys/fs/inode-max

(according to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/proc.txt, inode-max = 3 or 4 * 
file-max is recommended).

but this does eat up a little RAM...

HTH,

JJK

In article <3B7A8163.C5949FB3@senet.com.au>, Sean Chivers 
<saminc@senet.com.au> wrote:
>Hi all.
>
>I had a surprise booting up to Mandrake 7.2 today.
>
>Boot was correct from hdb1, with all hardware and drivers loaded ok. No
>hint of trouble until logon was complete. After Last Logon date, the
>error in the subject header is given, then the kernel proceeds to
>attempt to load the ld-linux.so.2 module.
>
>It waits a while then returns the syntax "Unable to load interpreter
>/lib/ld-linux.so.2".
>
>If I attempt to "startx", I get the syntax "blah blah(path&filename):Too
>many files open in system".
>
>Looks like a memory or virutal ram problem. But I am not in the least
>any sort of expert in such matters.
>
>Unfortunately I can't remember if I was stuffing around with any
>Mandrake x settings to cause this...
>
>Anyway, I thought it might be a boot sector problem, because I recently
>had to re-install (dare I say it...) Win 98 SE (on a completely separate
>drive and partition, so I booted from kernel floppy, but got the same
>problem. Don't remember seeing this before re-installing LILO after the
>win install. But there again, I simply dont' recall, as I've been too
>busy at work to logon at home for a long while... (any excuse).
>
>Can anyone venture a guess as to the cause and (hopefully) solution to
>my dilemma?
>
>I appreciate your assistance,
>
>Regards, Sean.
>
>

---------------------------
JJK / Jan Just Keijser
Unix/Linux Systems Engineer
smtp: janjust@cisco.com

flames > /dev/null 2>&1
---------------------------

<snip good ideas>

I've seen posts with this problem before.
(The OP should try to search groups.google.com)
I don't recall the solution (A missing library?)
But it was X messing, not ulimit limiting the number of open files.

Did you upgrade Mandrake recently?
try `ldd /path/to/X` and see if anything is missing.

Eric

> >I had a surprise booting up to Mandrake 7.2 today.
> >
> >Boot was correct from hdb1, with all hardware and drivers loaded ok. No
> >hint of trouble until logon was complete. After Last Logon date, the
> >error in the subject header is given, then the kernel proceeds to
> >attempt to load the ld-linux.so.2 module.
> >
> >It waits a while then returns the syntax "Unable to load interpreter
> >/lib/ld-linux.so.2".
> >
> >If I attempt to "startx", I get the syntax "blah blah(path&filename):Too
> >many files open in system".
> >
> >Looks like a memory or virutal ram problem. But I am not in the least
> >any sort of expert in such matters.
> >
> >Unfortunately I can't remember if I was stuffing around with any
> >Mandrake x settings to cause this...
> >
> >Anyway, I thought it might be a boot sector problem, because I recently
> >had to re-install (dare I say it...) Win 98 SE (on a completely separate
> >drive and partition, so I booted from kernel floppy, but got the same
> >problem. Don't remember seeing this before re-installing LILO after the
> >win install. But there again, I simply dont' recall, as I've been too
> >busy at work to logon at home for a long while... (any excuse).
> >
> >Can anyone venture a guess as to the cause and (hopefully) solution to
> >my dilemma?
> >
> >I appreciate your assistance,
> >
> >Regards, Sean.
> >
> >
>
> ---------------------------
> JJK / Jan Just Keijser
> Unix/Linux Systems Engineer
> smtp: janjust@cisco.com
>
> flames > /dev/null 2>&1
> ---------------------------

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001 23:34:19 +0930, Sean Chivers <saminc@senet.com.au>
wrote:

>Hi all.
>
>I had a surprise booting up to Mandrake 7.2 today.
>
>Boot was correct from hdb1, with all hardware and drivers loaded ok. No
>hint of trouble until logon was complete. After Last Logon date, the
>error in the subject header is given, then the kernel proceeds to
>attempt to load the ld-linux.so.2 module.
>
>It waits a while then returns the syntax "Unable to load interpreter
>/lib/ld-linux.so.2".
>
>If I attempt to "startx", I get the syntax "blah blah(path&filename):Too
>many files open in system".
>
>Looks like a memory or virutal ram problem. But I am not in the least
>any sort of expert in such matters.
>
>Unfortunately I can't remember if I was stuffing around with any
>Mandrake x settings to cause this...
>
>Anyway, I thought it might be a boot sector problem, because I recently
>had to re-install (dare I say it...) Win 98 SE (on a completely separate
>drive and partition, so I booted from kernel floppy, but got the same
>problem. Don't remember seeing this before re-installing LILO after the
>win install. But there again, I simply dont' recall, as I've been too
>busy at work to logon at home for a long while... (any excuse).
>
>Can anyone venture a guess as to the cause and (hopefully) solution to
>my dilemma?
>
>I appreciate your assistance,
>
>Regards, Sean.
>
>
Seems like you are in a bad way having 8192 files open at boot.

The good news is this is configurable on the fly.

You can up the tunable file-max in the kernel by echo'ing the new
limit to /proc/sys/fs/file-max:

	echo 16384  > /proc/sys/fs/file-max

This will double the amount of available file handles but is
temporary.  if you want it to be permenent then put it in a startup
file /etc/rc.d/rc.local or equivalent.

You should be able to use "lsof" to take a look at the open files
which may help diagnose what has gone wrong.

--
Good Luck
Tommy