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From: david AT adboyd DOT com (J. David Boyd)
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Date:  Wed, 05 Apr 2006 12:19:49 -0400
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Since yesterday, (and, _of course_, I vehemently deny changing anything in my
system), I've been plagued with

bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

and an unadorned bash prompt.  

If I type exit: 

Sometimes it continues on to show my regular bash prompt, which leads me to
think that some call in my .profile failed.

Sometimes, though, typing exit actually exits.

Sometimes, if I just wait, the startup continues and my expected prompt shows
up.

What would cause a fork to be temporarily unavailable?

Dave





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