[SunHELP] ld.so.1 error

[Sizheng Zhu]

But what should I do now to deal with it ?  I can't kill any process since I fail to log into the machine. 

Thanx very much.

> "Sizheng Zhu" <szhu at mail.ipp.ac.cn> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > We have a Sun UltraSparc running Solaris2.5.1. This morning we found
> > that no user (even for root) could log into the workstation, but we
> > can still ping and ftp to it from other machines. The error message is
> > as follows:
> > 
> >     console login: xxx
> >     ld.so.1: /usr/bin/login: fatal: libpam.so.1: can't open file:
> >     error=2
> > 
> > We urgently need your help.
> 
> Sounds like you ran out of RAM.  That can happen on systems with
> insufficient swap space, especially when one process or another decides
> to have a memory leak.
> 
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