QNX RTOS v4 Knowledge Base
QNX RTOS v4 Knowledge Base
| Title |
"Unable to fork. Resources temporarily unavailable" error message when attempting to login |
| Ref. No. |
QNX.000009655 |
| Category(ies) |
Utilities, Network, Installation, Configuration, Character I/O |
| Issue |
Could you explain why we would get the following message when we attempt to login:
Unable to fork. Resources temporarily unavailable.
We should note that we were able to login as root and do a shutdown. We got the error when we attempted to login with an account that runs a shell script.
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| Solution |
The system is out of pty's. Each shell (pterm) uses a pty. To increase the number of availably pty's, use the -n switch.
Example:
Dev.pty -n 16 &
For more information, look up Dev.pty in the "QNX OS Utilities - A to M" manual.
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