Unable to su

[jocasio]

Hey Gang:

I've been recently experiencing some very bizarre behavior on my HP UNIX. I have server app that for some strange reason keeps dropping my user's connections. In addition, if I go in as root and try to su, I receive the following error:

ERROR couldn't open /usr/lib/dld.sl errno:000000023

Does any one know what this message is? Are my drives going bad?

Please let me know

Thanks

jocasio

 

[jocasio]

I also wanted to add that if I try to log on as any other user (except root), I receive the following mgs:

ERROR couldn't open /usr/lib/dld.sl errno:000000023

Thanks for you help!

jocasio

 

[johngiggs]

jocasio,

From what I have read, it seems as though it is a file table overflow. The way to find the reason for the problem: from '/usr/include/sys/errno.h' :
#define ENFILE 23 /* File table overflow */

Try raising the nfile parameter and the problem should go away.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=519154

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=104530

Hope this helps.

John

 

[jocasio]

johngiggs:

Thanks for the reply. Yes, it was a table overflow issue. What I did was increased the maxuser parameter, which also increased nfile parameter.

Thanks

jocasio