[rescue] Ultra 5 strangeness

[Paul Phillips]

Hello -

My Ultra 5 running Solaris 8 recently started some strange behavior.

When I boot it, very early on in the boot process the console reports 
something like "too many processes" or something like that.  Sorry, I don't 
have the exact wording - I can't get to the machine right now.

Then it thrashes around for quite awhile - five or 10 minutes, then finally 
seems to complete the boot and work quasi normally.  I say quasi, because 
if it goes to sleep with CDE running, it won't take my password to return 
to CDE from sleep.

ps -e doesn't seem to report any abnormal processes.  Besides, the "too 
many processes" shows up even before any daemons are started, before the 
network is initialized, etc.

I realize this is horribly incomplete information, but if it sounds faintly 
familiar to someone, I'd like to know what it might be.

I can always just pull off the data files and reinstall... might be best.

Paul Phillips