Ultrix UWS 2.0 install on DS3100

[Chuck Karish]

In article <14954 at dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> pete at eleazar.dartmouth.edu
(Peter Robert Schmitt) wrote:
>In article <7606 at cbmvax.UUCP> grr at cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>>In article <14945 at dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> pete at eleazar.dartmouth.edu
>>(Peter Robert Schmitt) writes:
>>> setld is getting a syntax error on line 1231 when installing the
>>> supported software on a DS3100.  this line happens to be a comment
>>> line.  has anyone seen this one?

>>You haven't installed some alternate shell as /bin/sh have you?

>No I haven't used an alternate shell.  Can't run the setld after the
>install fails.  It complains (about 40 lines worth) that it runs out
>of swap space then hangs the system.  We are installing onto an RZ55 
>using the default partitions for /, /usr, and swap.  We figure DEC 
>gave us a bad distribution.

Maybe you're really running out of swap space.

ULTRIX won't swap unless there's a proper line in /etc/fstab, no
matter what's configured into the kernel.

I had mysterious problems after running setld on a GPX until someone
pointed this out.  setld and the processes it created filled up
physical memory, and subsequent calls to utilities like ls and df
would die with `not enough core' messages, until the kernel
reclaimed some memory.



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