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From: sow@luthcad.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Sun 3.0, Text: table is full
Message-ID: <622@luthcad.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 7-Dec-86 07:49:38 EST
Article-I.D.: luthcad.622
Posted: Sun Dec  7 07:49:38 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 8-Dec-86 21:32:45 EST
References: <1698@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: sow@luthcad.UUCP (Sven-Ove Westberg)
Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden
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Keywords: Sun 3.0 Text: table is full

In article <1698@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> flanagan@batcomputer.UUCP writes:
>
>O.K.  I give up. What the heck does "Text: table is full" mean?
>
>The message is triggered by the initiation of a process, which 
>is aborted immediately, whether it be a "man" or a shell or whatever.
>Rebooting the machine will make the problem go away for a while, but
>it eventually comes back. Killing off processes and reducing the 
>machines load doesn't always seem to help either. Acutually, the
>machines load average is usually fairly low. Shutting down suntools
>and reducing memory requirements doesn't seem to help either.
>

I got the same problem when I installed MH on my machine.
I think that you have some programs with the save text bit set
(chmod +t), this mode saves the text segment so it will not help to
kill some processes. The solution is to do a chmod -t on "all" files,
and then reeboot the system.

Sven-Ove Westberg 
UUCP: sow@luthcad.UUCP
UUCP:  {decvax,philabs,seismo}!mcvax!enea!luthcad!sow