On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 02:57:37PM +1000, Brad Thomson wrote: > > I've got a problem with dpkg on Debian unstable, that's preventing further > package installation (I can remove packages fine). > > Here's some output to illlustrate: [..snip..] > unable to create ./usr/X11R6/man/man3/XGetWMIconName.3x.gz': Too many open > files
No answers, but some questions that might help... Do you have any resource limits set (I think you can check this with the ulimit command)? How many files does "lsof | wc -l" say you have open (run it as root to get a system-wide figure). -Andrew. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
