[TriLUG] apt and mirrors.trilug inaccessible.

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 10:37, James Manning wrote:
> > Anyone know why I can't access the trilug apt repository or the html
> > page?
> 
> it's being fixed :)
> 

Okay, the problem has been resolved.  Thanks Frank and James for
noticing the problem.

Apparently Apache (or more specifically, the "mm" component) has a bug
in which it will not release semaphores properly.  The kernel eventually
runs out of semaphores, resulting in the error shown (semget: No space
left on device)  -- the "no space left on device" is not really correct,
there just isn't apparently an errno for "out of semaphores".

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=74543

The workaround was to increase the number of available sempahores, by
editing /etc/sysctl.conf and running "sysctl -p" as described in that
bugzilla bug.

--Jeremy

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