[NTLUG:Discuss] Sudden error

[Kevin Brannen]

Bobby Wrenn wrote:

> A little while ago I tried to do an 'ls' in a terminal window. I got 
> an error "Unable to allocate memory". I tried a few more commands and 
> got the same errror. I rebooted the machine and got the error on 
> practically every line during boot. X Windows comes up but most 
> services don't work. I can't bring up eth0 (same error).
>
> System it Suse 9.2 loaded about a month ago. Google didn't turn up 
> anything helpful.
>
> Have I been cracked? Any ideas?


Is /tmp or / full?  I've seen VMware freak with messages like that then 
/tmp fills.  I've seen X do weird stuff for that reason too (it tries to 
allocate its special device files in /tmp and fails is why).

HTH,
Kevin