G'day Thomas, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> I updated to 8.99.6 from yesterday and then started a bulk build. > After a very short while it was hung and I couldn't connect from > outside. When I came back to the console, I saw that it had run out of > resources and couldn't fork anything. > > There were a lot of processes called "Build", probably from one of the > packages in the bulk build. > > I couldn't even shutdown, because zsh couldn't fork shutdown, nor did > pressing the power button help, because the powerd script couldn't be > forked. You should be able to "exec /sbin/halt" which shouldn't need to fork in these circumstances. Cheers, Simon.