Thus spake Michael Heldebrant:
> On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 20:09, Robin Gerard wrote:
> > hello,
> > I run potato 2.2r2 and have upgraded partially
> > with woody.
> > All ran fine, but after my system crashed, linux
> > boot correctly until:
> > ttyS00 .....
> > ttyS01 ....
> >
> > after a while
> >
> > /dev/ttyS00 ..
> > /dev/ttyS01 ..
> > .............
> > Cleaning /tmp /var/lock /var/run
> >
> > after a while
> >
> > INIT: Entering runlevel:2
> > after a while
> > ...............
> > starting internet superserver:inet/etc/rc2.d/S20inetd:
> > xmalloc: cannot allocate 428 bytes
> > unable to load interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2
> > ...............
> >
> > Finaly i can work as root but not as user.
> >
> > when I do shutdown i get :
> > .............
> > Deconfiguring network interfaces:done
> > Desactiving swap...VM:do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd
> > VM:do_try_to_free_pages failed for swapoff
> > swapoff: /dev/hda2: cannot allocate memory
> > ......
> > is it possible that i repair my system ?
>
> I'd run memtest on that sytem ASAP. It sounds to me like you're running
> out of memory at boot.
The only other thought - do you have a reasonable size swap partition?
It lloks like the failure on shutdown is a swap partition failure.
Just a thought,
Steve
