Hi there! No glibc upgrade here. Nothing of note has changed.
Gary On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, ABrady wrote: > On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 20:13:31 -0500 (EST) > Gary Nielson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> implied: > > > I am running a Valinux Redhat version 2.2.14-5.0.14b. My system was > > running for 21 days continuously. Tonight, I was using > > Netscape-Communicator when my machine started behaving > > erratically. I had to kill Netscape from the command prompt, and there > > were 3 Netscape processes running. Every time I tried to start > Netscape > > again, I wound up having to kill it from the prompt, and then I > started > > getting core dumps and could not even do a 'df' or an 'ls' without a > core > > dump and receiving an error message similar to the one recorded in > > /var/log/messages: > > > > Nov 19 19:02:53 localhost httpd: httpd: error in loading shared > > libraries: libcrypt.so.1: cannot map zero-fill pages: Cannot allocate > memory > > Nov 19 19:02:53 localhost httpd: startup failed > > > > When I could do a 'free' I found that all my swap space had been used > up > > on my 256 meg machine, as well as most other memory. I believe I got > an > > out of memory error from the shell prompt. > > > > I also got watchdog errors in my email that warned me that my httpd > and > > sendmail processes had "been restarted or something has gone wrong." > > > > I wound up rebooting the system and it is behaving fine now, not > > exhibiting any problems. > > > > Did I just have a process that went wild, out of control, and brought > the > > house down? Is there something I should watch for to see if something > is > > not quite right such that this could happen again? > > > > I've had this machine for 2 years without such an incident and haven't > > been making any changes recently. Any help appreciated. > > Did you happen to upgrade your glibc recently? I've had really strange > problems when I've done that, some similar to some you've mentioned with > processes not being able to load libraries. I've also had numerous > problems with compiling kernels and such after upgrading. > > A reboot has (almost) always fixed it for me. > > -- NOTE: My [EMAIL PROTECTED] email address will be going away soon. If you are sending email there, please change it to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- my primary address now. Thanks. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
