Sunday, October 22, 2000, 10:38:38 PM, you wrote: BS> On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Ikarus wrote: >> I've got a really strange problem using dpkg apt-get and other package >> handeling tools when I attempt to do anyting (like: apt-get install >> apache) it gives the following error: shell-init: could not get current >> directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or >> directory >> What does this error mean and what can I do about it
BS> That the program (bash) is in a dir the user running it does not have BS> read permission for; I've had it happen when su-ing around or if I BS> delete a dir a user is working in. Don't worry about it unless some BS> program is bombing out because of it. The first problem was because of some nice effects with su like you said I found that out just now >> Also I've got in my syslog and message log a lot of messages like: >> Oct 21 01:10:13 Mercury kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for init... >> Oct 21 01:10:13 Mercury kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for bitchx... >> And many more for every program I'm running. Its also allmost at the >> exact time I'm installing/removing packages could this be related and BS> You are low on virtual memory (VM) and the kernel is failing when it BS> tries to free some for the programs running... either get more RAM, make BS> another (or larger) swap partition, create a swap file, or shutdown some BS> of the programs running when you are installing packages. The messages BS> are not a problem unless running programs are being killed when you try BS> to use them. I thought 60 VM would be enough with 32 MB ram but then I'll just have to make even more swapspace availible >> if so how do I fix it everything seems to be going wrong on my machine >> lately BS> such as... I had some problems related to Apache + PHP4 + mysql that I thought where related to these problems but I'm working on that one with a friend of mine. Thanx -- Ikarus mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
