Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Unable to load interpreter | From | (Aaron M. Ucko) | Date | 23 Mar 1998 16:03:45 -0600 |
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Brian Rogers <brogers@why.net> writes:
> > Can anybody help me with such problem: After a few days of working my > > Linux server crashes. Every minute kernel types on terminal: Unable to > > load interpreter. Anybody can't see server on network and I can't login > > to it from terminal. I think something eat's up all memory. Where > > should I see the reasons of this crash? I'm using RH 4.1, 2.0.33, Intel > > Providence 430FX MB, 128 Mb RAM > > I would say that your hard-drive had a problem and now /bin/bash is > corrupted. Since /bin/bash is the second-most important executable on > your file-system (/sbin/init being the first), you can't boot. And it is > an interpreter. Since you were able to post messages from your log, I > guess you have a rescue disk. I would advise using this to replace > /bin/bash.
Um, no. The messages just mean that (for whatever reason) something's eating up so much memory on his system that the kernel can't even load ld-linux.so (the "interpreter" for dynamically-linked ELF binaries).
-- Aaron M. Ucko <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu) [Stark raving sane]
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