It happened again. This time I exited from a hung session
using Shift-F12 and still got the maxusers complaint. I
then cleared all dosexecs from the process list - and still
got it. I've attached the process list to see if it offers
any clues.
Paul Abrahams
PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:08 init
2 ? 00:00:00 kflushd
3 ? 00:00:01 kupdate
4 ? 00:00:00 kpiod
5 ? 00:00:02 kswapd
45 ? 00:00:04 xfs
100 ? 00:00:00 portmap
104 ? 00:00:00 rpc.ugidd
112 ? 00:00:00 syslogd
116 ? 00:00:00 klogd
148 ? 00:00:00 rpc.mountd
149 ? 00:00:00 rpc.nfsd
154 ? 00:00:00 rpc.pcnfsd
161 ? 00:00:00 atd
164 ? 00:00:00 inetd
179 ? 00:00:00 lpd
192 ? 00:00:00 nmbd
195 ? 00:00:00 cron
201 ? 00:00:00 smbd
204 ? 00:00:00 nscd
205 ? 00:00:00 nscd
206 ? 00:00:00 nscd
207 ? 00:00:00 nscd
208 ? 00:00:00 nscd
209 ? 00:00:00 nscd
210 ? 00:00:00 nscd
673 tty1 00:00:00 login
674 tty2 00:00:00 mingetty
675 tty3 00:00:00 mingetty
676 tty4 00:00:00 mingetty
677 tty5 00:00:00 mingetty
678 tty6 00:00:00 mingetty
679 ? 00:00:00 sendmail
681 tty1 00:00:00 bash
689 tty1 00:00:00 startx
690 tty1 00:00:00 tee
699 tty1 00:00:00 xinit
700 ? 00:05:47 X
703 tty1 00:00:11 kwm
711 ? 00:00:00 imwheel
712 tty1 00:00:01 khotkeys
727 tty1 00:00:02 kfm
733 tty1 00:00:01 kbgndwm
736 tty1 00:00:00 krootwm
739 tty1 00:00:06 kpanel
743 tty1 00:00:00 xclock
755 tty1 00:00:04 aim
768 tty1 00:00:00 aim
770 tty1 00:00:00 aim
1160 tty1 00:03:35 netscape4
1161 tty1 00:00:00 netscape4
1659 tty1 00:00:00 auserver
1775 tty1 00:00:00 kvt
1776 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
1784 pts/0 00:00:00 su
1785 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
1992 pts/0 00:00:00 ps