Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wasatch!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!shelby!portia!forel!karish From: karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Ultrix UWS 2.0 install on DS3100 Message-ID: <4397@portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 10 Aug 89 18:01:29 GMT References: <14945@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <7606@cbmvax.UUCP> <14954@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Sender: USENET News SystemReply-To: karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) Organization: Mindcraft, Inc. Lines: 32 In article <14954@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> pete@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Peter Robert Schmitt) wrote: >In article <7606@cbmvax.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes: >>In article <14945@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> pete@eleazar.dartmouth.edu >>(Peter Robert Schmitt) writes: >>> setld is getting a syntax error on line 1231 when installing the >>> supported software on a DS3100. this line happens to be a comment >>> line. has anyone seen this one? >>You haven't installed some alternate shell as /bin/sh have you? >No I haven't used an alternate shell. Can't run the setld after the >install fails. It complains (about 40 lines worth) that it runs out >of swap space then hangs the system. We are installing onto an RZ55 >using the default partitions for /, /usr, and swap. We figure DEC >gave us a bad distribution. Maybe you're really running out of swap space. ULTRIX won't swap unless there's a proper line in /etc/fstab, no matter what's configured into the kernel. I had mysterious problems after running setld on a GPX until someone pointed this out. setld and the processes it created filled up physical memory, and subsequent calls to utilities like ls and df would die with `not enough core' messages, until the kernel reclaimed some memory. Chuck Karish {decwrl,hpda}!mindcrf!karish (415) 493-9000 karish@forel.stanford.edu