On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 12:44:30PM +0100, Simon Liddington wrote:
> > On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 03:02:41PM +0100, Simon Liddington wrote:
> > > May 15 14:48:36 rayleigh automount[545]: get_pkt: poll failed: No child processes
> > Some time ago I mentioned this problem as well. I have about 50
> > boxes running 2.2.14 + autofs-2.2.14-20000123.diff. Once in a month
> > or so I see the same message here. The automounter I use is
> > from autofs-4.0.0-1pre.
>
> Well, it happened to me again last night.
>
> I'm wondering if I'm running out of processes or there is a bug in the
> kernel process code because I have been rebuilding the redhat kernel
> rpms with the autofs4 patch and that has stopped a few times during
> the configure stage saying "No child processes" too.
That's suspect. I think fork() returns EAGAIN or ENOMEM in that case.
Chances are it really is a kernel bug. Another thing which happened a
few times in the past is bash hanging on wait4() calls with ENOCHILD or
similar errno but I'm uncertain about the corresponding kernel version
(2.2.6, 2.2.10-ac11 or 2.2.14).
--
Frank
