On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:16:57PM +0800, Zarick Lau wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 18:02, Andreas Schmitzer wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> > recently i installed gentoo 1.4 for ahtlon-xp. while booting the message
> > appears :
> >
> > " cleaning /var/lock, /var/run, ....
> > Xargs: environment ist too large for exec"
> try upgrade the findutils
> >
> > what does it mean and how do i solve it?
> > it doesn�t seem to be a serious problem, because it�s possible to work.
> >
> > swap has 256 MB and physical ram is 256 MB too, /var has 7 GB.
> > because i still don�t have a working network or connection to the internet,
> > i made my install with the 2 GPR install cd�s.
> > thanks in advance.
Did you get this one fixed? The error messages leads me to
believe you have an(some) environment variable(s) defined with
large string values. Andreas might know that the findutils
startup script was defining such a variable and it has since been
fixed. But if it is not the findutils startup script that
defines the large environment variable(s), then some config files
for your root user must be doing it.
If root's shell is still /bin/bash (the default), try renaming
any of the following that exist to temporary names, so they don't
get used:
/root/.bashrc
/root/.bash_profile
/root/.login
/root/.profile
If that fixes it, you could play with putting some of them back
and then just portions of the files back until you find the
problem. And you may want to do so, because that error is likely
to crop up in other places - wherever a system script uses xargs,
which I believe is a common occurrence.
- richard
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