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