ld.so.1 fatal when trying to telnet

[comtec17]

Hello all!
I am running Solaris 8 on an Ultra 10. When I telnet to my box I get this error:
ld.so.1 login: fatal: /usr/lib/libc.so.1: too many open files

How can I correct this, and what may be causing this?

Thanks in advance

 

[bpinos]

Set the open file hande setting in /etc/system to a higher number by adding the lines below. By default they are at 1024

set rlim_fd_max = ??Whatever you want??
set rlim_fd_cur = ??Tuning documents suggest setting this
to a max of 1024??

This will require a reboot after changing. For immediate results, run:

ulimit -n unlimited

This will set the value immediately, but it will not set it accross reboots. So you will still need to set the values in /etc/system

Hope this helps!

 

[comtec17]

Bpinos,
Thanks for the help. I have placed the info in my /etc/system file and now I am hung trying to telnet. Any ideas?

 

[bpinos]

No errors? No logs? Can you run a truss on the telnet process?

i.e.: truss telnet somehost.com

Or how about running a netstat on a separate terminal while trying to telnet. Can you see the connection going out?

 

[comtec17]

I made the changes and rebooted, now my server wont come up. I get "failed to create uxtmp" and "cannot find root in shadow" and it comes up in single user mode. When I try any command I get the lib.so.1 fatal error. I typed in ulimit -n unlimited and it stops, but when I try to vi or rm, the filesystem is in read only mode.

Any idea?

 

[bpinos]

comtec17,

Well it sounds like your hard disk has errors. Try to run fsck.

Basically you have to type:

fsck /
fsck /var
fsck /usr

and whatever other partitions you have. You will need to run this as many times as it takes on each partition till it comes up with no errors.

 

[comtec17]

Thanks for your help. Unfortunatly, an fsck did not work. I had to boot to cdrom in single user mode and vi the /etc/system file and take out the entries you had me enter. Once this was done my system was able to come up. I still get the errors while telneting to the server from any other server but I can use Xterm for now. Again, thanks for your response.

 

[asp6668]

Hello,

Did you fix it ? I got the sam problem on SUN 220R. /Jerry

 

[comtec17]

I have not fixed this yet.

 

[japponce]

I have this problem. Did you fix it ?

 

[dmkowal]

I had the same problem yesterday- I've copied /usr/sbin/in.telnetd /usr/lib/libcmd.so.1 from other server, changer owning adn permisions (755/root/bin) and...

it works!!!
(but I haven't restart machine)