jrm@alpha.ma.adfa.oz.au (John R Marley) (05/20/91)
We are trying to run Splus on diskless Apollo 400t workstations, running SR
10.3 psk 8. When we run Splus we get the following output:
% Splus
Cannot execute UNIX command: No more processes
Command was: "echo $SHOME"
Terminating because of error in initialization or .First
System terminating
%
We've tried all sorts of things to get it to work, like changing environments
or the default shell, but nothing seems to work. A couple of times we've
managed to get it to work, but we don't know why. We can run it fine on our
Apollo 5500's with SR10.3 psk 8, but these all have disks...
Is this a problem with Splus, the Operating System or us? Any help at all
would be appreciated as this piece of software is heavily used in the
department. Thanks in advance..
--
John Marley | Maths Dept, Uni College, |
jrm@maadfa.adfa.oz.au | U.N.S.W., A.D.F.A., | =8^)
ph : +61 6 2688882 | Canberra, Australia. |hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen) (05/24/91)
In article <JRM.91May20120029@alpha.ma.adfa.oz.au> jrm@alpha.ma.adfa.oz.au (John R Marley) writes:
We are trying to run Splus on diskless Apollo 400t workstations, running SR
10.3 psk 8. When we run Splus we get the following output:
% Splus
Cannot execute UNIX command: No more processes
Command was: "echo $SHOME"
Terminating because of error in initialization or .First
System terminating
%
We've tried all sorts of things to get it to work, like changing environments
or the default shell, but nothing seems to work. A couple of times we've
managed to get it to work, but we don't know why. We can run it fine on our
Apollo 5500's with SR10.3 psk 8, but these all have disks...
Is this a problem with Splus, the Operating System or us?
I would guess some combination of the former two. The symptom seems
very much like what happens to us when we run the MIT Xapollo (R4)
server, or more precisely, when xdm restarts that server after a
logout: The server is (often but far from every time) unable to open
the screen, and then both the system calls fork() and exec() start to
fail -- not only for Xapollo and xdm, but even for unrelated processes
like inetd. When failing, the error status from fork() is "No more
processes", while if exec() fails the process just crashes. I can
e-mail more details if desired (I posted them on comp.sys.apollo a few
months back), but frankly I don't think it is going to help.
- Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@imf.unit.no>
Division of Mathematical Sciences
The Norwegian Institute of Technology
N-7034 Trondheim, NORWAY