Re: Unable to load interpreter ???

[Matt Wagner <matt c wagner uwrf edu>]

we usually get that error on i386 machines when the machines have
exhausted all their memory... :)




On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Stefan Boresch wrote:

> Does anyone know what this message indicates (this is the full
> printout from the syslog:
> 
> Nov 30 11:09:44 gamma kernel: Unable to load interpreter
> 
> I am suddenly getting these messages on two LX machines under medium to
> high load.  One of the machines just had some hardware trouble, so
> I'd be willing to accept that there is still something going on there,
> but the other machine was extremely stable and NOTHING was changed
> hard- or softwarewise.  As soon as one gets these messages, every
> program one attempts to start segfaults; pretty soon one has to
> hit the reboot button.
> 
> These machines are running RH 5.1 with pretty much all patches applied,
> milo is the RH 5.1 one, the kernel is 2.0.35 compiled from the
> Redhat sources.  (I am willing to compile a kernel from pristine sources,
> but note that this kernel worked fine for the last months.)
> 
> A simple test to reproduce my problem is the memory tester which
> Dave Gilbert posted to this group a while ago, it runs fine (no bad
> memory is reported, but after an hour these messages start to appear)
> 
> I should add that both machines have Adaptec SCSI adapters (one an
> 2940U, the other the 2940UW), and our real applications do a lot of
> heavy duty disk I/O.  I have had no problems with these; on the other
> hand, several people seem to have had problems with 2.0.35 and the
> Adaptec driver.  So, I'd also appreciate if people would comment on
> which combination (kernel, Adaptec driver version, alpha-patches runs
> well for them).
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Stefan Boresch
> 
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