Re: running system, can't exec programs.

2001-12-02 Thread James Morrison
--- Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is exec still running? At least in theory, I think it should work > to > > just kill it, and then a new one should be started automatically > when > > needed. > > So let's think about how that works. A passive translator is > started by > the pare

Re: running system, can't exec programs.

2001-12-02 Thread Roland McGrath
> Is exec still running? At least in theory, I think it should work to > just kill it, and then a new one should be started automatically when > needed. So let's think about how that works. A passive translator is started by the parent calling file_exec, which works in the filesystem by calling

Re: running system, can't exec programs.

2001-12-02 Thread Niels Möller
James Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > now I can't run any new programs. apache is still running, I've > still got irc, but no new processes. Is there anything I can do > to get the exec server working again without rebooting? Is exec still running? At least in theory, I think it sh

Re: running system, can't exec programs.

2001-12-02 Thread Roland McGrath
Unfortunately, you can't even really figure out what is wrong if you can't run any programs at all. If the exec server has died, you should be getting some errors, not wedges. If the exec server is hung, then you are probably SOL. In either case, if you have no functioning exec server, then you

running system, can't exec programs.

2001-12-02 Thread James Morrison
Hello, I've come to an interesting problem. I can't run any programs, but I my system is still running, 15 days. This is what I did: cp /bin/ls ~/bin; gzip ~/bin/ls ~/bin/ls.gz ---nothing happens--- C-c ---nothing happens, but I can't switch screens now--- So I login from ano